Example sentences for: phoenician

How can you use “phoenician” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Costa Blanca was soon dotted with such Phoenician towns as Elche and Játiva.

  • (The first Phoenician who tried it probably got very rich; the second got sacrificed to Moloch.)

  • Founded by Phoenician traders more than 3,000 years ago, it came under Carthaginian and Roman rule before falling to the Moorish invasion force in 711.

  • Located some 130 m (425 ft) above the city, this hilltop is capped by the ramparts of a Phoenician castle reconstructed in the 14th century by the Moors (who went on to build the lighthouse that gave Gibralfaro its name).

  • Though a castle of sorts Silves has existed here since Phoenician times, the present Castelo dos Mouros, on the site of Roman or Visigothic foundations, took shape after the Reconquest, though it preserves distinctly Moorish lines.


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