CIVILIZATION
PHOENICIAN
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Latvia
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Luxembourg
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Lebanon
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Lithuania
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Detailed explanation-1: -Phoenicia, ancient region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean that corresponds to modern Lebanon, with adjoining parts of modern Syria and Israel. Its location along major trade routes led its inhabitants, called Phoenicians, to become notable merchants, traders, and colonizers in the 1st millennium bce.
Detailed explanation-2: -Urban settlements in Lebanon date to the early Bronze Age. The inhabitants, called Phoenicians by the Greeks, were indistinguishable from the Canaanites of Palestine.
Detailed explanation-3: -Byblos, modern Jbail, also spelled Jubayl, or Jebeil, biblical Gebal, ancient seaport, the site of which is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, about 20 miles (30 km) north of the modern city of Beirut, Lebanon.