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Empire vs Phoenicia - What's the difference?

empire | phoenicia |

As a noun empire

is a political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.

As a adjective phoenicia is

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empire

English

(wikipedia empire)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.
  • A group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to a foreign power.
  • A state ruled by an emperor.
  • An expansive and wealthy corporation.
    • the McDonald's fast food empire

    Related terms

    * emperor * imperial * imperium

    Derived terms

    * American Empire * British Empire * First French Empire * German Empire * Holy Roman Empire * Portuguese Empire * Roman Empire * Second French Empire * Spanish Empire * empirehood * global empire * colonial empire

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    phoenicia

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Phenicia (nonstandard) * (archaic)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • the land of city states of the Phoenicians which around 1000 BC was situated on the coast of present day Syria and Lebanon, and included the cities of Tyre and Sidon.
  • the trading empire of the Phoenicians which spread across most of the eastern Mediterranean Sea as far west as Sicily.

    • Derived terms

    * Phoenician