Phoenicia
Ancient region, Middle East. Corresponding to modern Lebanon, with adjoining parts of Syria and Israel, its chief cities were Sidon, Tyre, and Berot (modern Beirut). The Phoenicians were notable merchants, traders, and colonizers of the Mediterranean region in the 1st millennium BC. The area was conquered successively by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and Macedonians under Alexander the Great. In 64 BC it was incorporated into the Roman province of Syria.

腓尼基
中东古老地区，相当于现代的黎巴嫩,部分与叙利亚、以色列相邻,其主要城市有西顿,泰尔以及现在的贝鲁特。公元前1000年，在地中海地区，腓尼基人都是显赫的商人和殖民者。该地区先后被亚述人、巴比伦人、波斯人和亚历山大大帝治下的马其顿人征服。公元前64年,它被归并为罗马统治下叙利亚的一个省份。
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.
当时，腓尼基人到过已知世界的边缘,向希腊人及其他早期的民族介绍他们的字母表。他们的字母表基于符号声音而不是楔形文字或象形符号。腓尼基的文化逐渐被波斯和后来的希腊文明吸收。