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🔴 Putting Phoenicia on the Map. From the Greeks to Ernest Renan’s Mission

"This imaginary Phoenicia entered historiography and
cartography as a reality, not only in France but also in the
Ottoman Realm, then the sovereign entity over the Levant.
The toponym was used, anachronistically, for Biblical
maps to refer to the Sidonians and the Tyrians of the Ancient Testament. Already, in the popular Van Dyck-Smith Arabic translation of the Bible, the versions illustrated with maps showed a “Phoenicia” in the time of David and Solomon."

Keilo, J.: Putting Phoenicia on the Map. From the Greeks to Ernest Renan’s Mission, Proc. Int. Cartogr. Assoc., 3, 9, doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-3-9-2, 2021.

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