Lux Domini

Biblical place

Where was Phoenicia?

Biblical place identified in the local geography layer with Tyre.

First appears in Mark 7:26 · 2 books · 4 chapters

Overview

Properly Phoenix a palm-tree (as in the R. V. ), a town with a harbour on the southern side of Crete (Acts 27:12), west of the Fair Havens. It is now called Lutro. Modern identification: Tyre.

Phoenicia is represented in the local geography layer as Tyre. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Mark 7:26 and is mentioned across 2 books, with 4 verse references collected into the glossary index.

Nearby biblical places

Canaan

About 58 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Nazareth

About 64 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Galilee

About 65 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Damascus

About 106 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Samaria

About 111 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Where it sits on the map

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How to get to Phoenicia today

Travel to Phoenicia, the modern-day Tyre.

Phoenicia is commonly identified with Tyre, and the map on this page is meant to orient you to that present-day site before you continue into routing or street-level navigation.

Phoenicia is mapped here at the commonly cited modern identification.

This is a study aid, not live travel advice. Archaeological tells, access rules, excavation boundaries, and nearby modern roads can change.

Modern orientation

Tyre

Phoenicia

33.271°N · 35.196°E

Key passages

Appears in

Acts

3 chapters · 3 verse mentions

Mark

1 chapter · 1 verse mention