Phoenicia

n. ancient kingdom in the Mediterranean Sea region (was located on the territory of modern-day Syria, Lebanon and Israel)

Phoenicia (or Phenicia \\, from Biblical Phenice \\) was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coast of modern day Lebanon and Syria. Phoenician civilization was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread across the Mediterranean during the first millennium BC, between the period of 1200 BC to 900 BC. Though ancient boundaries of such city-centered cultures fluctuated, the city of Tyre seems to have been the southernmost. Sarepta (modern day Sarafand) between Sidon and Tyre, is the most thoroughly excavated city of the Phoenician homeland. The Phoenicians often traded by means of a galley, a man-powered sailing vessel. They were the first civilization to create the bireme. There is still debate on the subject of whether the Canaanites and Phoenicians were different peoples or not .
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Noun
1. an ancient maritime country (a collection of city states) at eastern end of the Mediterranean
(synonym) Phenicia
(hypernym) geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
(part-meronym) Carthage
(class) Phoenician

Phoenicia, red; purple
  

(Acts 21:2). (See PHENICIA.)