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Phoenicia is a hamlet of Shandaken in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 268 at the 2020 census, making it the second highest populated community in the town. The village center is located just off Route 28 at its junction with Route 214 and is nestled at the base of three peaks, Mount Tremper, Romer Mountain, and Sheridan Mountain. The community sits at the confluence of the Esopus Creek and Stony Clove Creek. A popular getaway for New Yorkers, the hamlet has frequented many tourism guides as among the best vacation towns in the greater New York City area.
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“May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, or the Phoenician, or whoever it was that invented books!”
“Had it not been for waves of continental invaders, Assyrians, Babylonians and Persians and the destruction of Phoenician libraries, we may have been talking more of our debt to Phoenicians and Greeks rather than Greeks only, but Greece was to survive due to its geography and tenacity of its people.”
“And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. He was a widow’s son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.”
“The Carthaginians, like the Phoenicians from which they came, appear to have been a people who were hard and sad, sensual and greedy, and adventurous without heroism. ... at Carthage too the religion was atrocious and full of frightful practices.”
“And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift.”
“And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.”
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