The history of Phoenicia, Political history, the origin of Phoenicians, People of Phoenicia: Introduction. Phoenic , or Phoenicia, was the name originally given by the Greeks and afterwards adopted from them by the Romans--to the coast region of the Mediterranean, where it faces the west between the thirty-second and the thirty-sixth parallels. Here, it would seem, in their early voyagings, the Pre-Homeric Greeks first came upon a land where the palm-tree...
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