The Seven Great Monarchies of the Ancient Asian World A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions

Phoenicé, 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 was not only indigenous, but formed a leading and striking characteristic, everywhere along the low sandy shore lifting its tuft of feathery leaves into the bright blue sky, high above the undergrowth of fig, and pomegranate, and alive. Hence they called the tract Phoenicia, or “the Land of Palms;” and the people who inhabited it the Phoenicians, or “the Palm-tree people.”

• АвторGeorge Rawlinson
• ВидавництвоProject Gutenberg
• Рік видання2009 р.
• Оригінальна назваThe Seven Great Monarchies of the Ancient Asian World A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions
• Тип книгиЕлектронна книга