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... known mining operations - Earliest Phoenician mining in Phoenicia Proper Mines of Cyprus - Phoenician mining in Thasos and Thrace - in Sardinia - in Spain - Extent of the metallic trea- sures there - Phoenician methods not unlike those ...
... known mining operations - Earliest Phoenician mining in Phoenicia Proper Mines of Cyprus - Phoenician mining in Thasos and Thrace - in Sardinia - in Spain - Extent of the metallic trea- sures there - Phoenician methods not unlike those ...
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... known as Syria , never as Phoenicia or Phoenicé . The entire length of the coast between the limits of Cape Possidi and Rhinocolura is , without reckon- ing the lesser indentations , about 380 miles , or nearly the same as that of ...
... known as Syria , never as Phoenicia or Phoenicé . The entire length of the coast between the limits of Cape Possidi and Rhinocolura is , without reckon- ing the lesser indentations , about 380 miles , or nearly the same as that of ...
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... known as Ard - el - Burâ- jineh . The plain is deficient in water , yet is culti- vated in olives and mulberries , and contains the largest olive grove in all Syria . A little beyond its western edge is the famous pine forest from which ...
... known as Ard - el - Burâ- jineh . The plain is deficient in water , yet is culti- vated in olives and mulberries , and contains the largest olive grove in all Syria . A little beyond its western edge is the famous pine forest from which ...
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... known at the present day as Jebel - el - Akra , or the Bald Mountain . ' It is formed mainly of the same cretaceous limestone as the other mountains of these parts , and like them has a rounded summit ; but rocks of igneous origin enter ...
... known at the present day as Jebel - el - Akra , or the Bald Mountain . ' It is formed mainly of the same cretaceous limestone as the other mountains of these parts , and like them has a rounded summit ; but rocks of igneous origin enter ...
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... known to the ancients as Bargylus , and to modern geographers as the Ansay- rieh or Nasariyeh mountain - region , runs at right angles to the spur terminating in the Mount Casius , and extends from the Orontes near Antioch to the valley ...
... known to the ancients as Bargylus , and to modern geographers as the Ansay- rieh or Nasariyeh mountain - region , runs at right angles to the spur terminating in the Mount Casius , and extends from the Orontes near Antioch to the valley ...
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