Phoenicia

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Phoe.ni.cia

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An ancient maritime country of southwest Asia consisting of city-states along the eastern Mediterranean Sea in present-day Syria and Lebanon. Its people became the foremost navigators and traders of the Mediterranean by 250b.c. and established numerous colonies, including Carthage in northern Africa. The Phoenicians traveled to the edges of the known world at the time and introduced their alphabet, based on symbols for sounds rather than cuneiform or hieroglyphic representations, to the Greeks and other early peoples. Phoenicia`s culture was gradually absorbed by Persian and later Hellenistic civilizations.
腓尼基：亞洲西南部的一個古代海邊國家，由地中海東部沿岸的城邦組成，位於今敘利亞和黎巴嫩境內。直到公元前 250年，腓尼基人一直是地中海地區最聞名的航海家和商人，並建立了許多殖民地，包括北非的迦太基。腓尼基人到過當時所知的世界邊緣，他們把基於聲音符號而不是楔形或象形文字的字母表，介紹給希臘人和其他早期民族。腓尼基文化逐步地被波斯文化和後來的古希臘文化所吸收