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Phoenician contacts with Tartessos
Phoenician contacts with Tartessos were trade and settlement relations between Phoenician merchants and southern Iberian societies, centered on Huelva, from the ninth to the sixth century BC.
Phoenician History (Philo of Byblos)
The Phoenician History (Phoinikika) is a Greek work by Philo of Byblos, written around 115–125 CE and claiming translation from the older Phoenician writer Sanchuniathon.
Phoenician language
Phoenician is a Canaanite Semitic language spoken on the Lebanese coast and in western Mediterranean colonies, related closely to Hebrew and written in a 22-letter alphabet.
Phoenician papyrus letters
The Phoenician papyrus letters, also called Phoenician papyri, are the only two known Phoenician papyri, both letters from Egypt: one from Saqqara, dated to the sixth century BCE, and one kept in Cairo.
Phoenician port of Beirut
The Phoenician port of Beirut is the ancient harbor of Berytus in modern Lebanon, a natural cove turned artificial harbor used from the Iron Age through Roman times.
Phoenician settlement of North Africa
The Phoenician settlement of North Africa was the westward colonization of the North African coast by Phoenicians from Tyre, founding Utica and Carthage in modern Tunisia.
Phoenician Sphinx inscription
The Phoenician Sphinx inscription is a Phoenician dedication carved on a sphinx statue base at Umm el-Amed, southern Lebanon, recording two talents of gold offered to the god Milk'ashtart.
Phoenician sundial
The Phoenician sundial is an inscribed Hellenistic sundial found at Oum el Amed, Lebanon, in 1861, held today by the Louvre and the National Museum of Beirut.
Phoenicopterus
Phoenicopterus is the Linnaean genus of shallow-keeled flamingos, holding the American, greater, and Chilean flamingos; formerly all six flamingo species were placed in it before molecular phylogenetics split the deep-keeled species into Phoenicoparrus and Phoeniconaias.
Phoenicopterus chilensis
Phoenicopterus chilensis, the Chilean flamingo (flamenco chileno), is a large South American flamingo breeding from Peru to Tierra del Fuego; about 300,000 birds, Near Threatened, threatened by egg-harvesting, mining, and wetland loss.
Phoenicurus
Phoenicurus, the redstart genus (Forster, 1817), Muscicapidae passerines named for red tails; 14 species of late Miocene Himalayan origin, including the common redstart P. phoenicurus and black redstart P. ochruros.
Phoenix
Phoenix (Greek phoinix, φοίνιξ): mythical long-lived bird of classical tradition, Egyptian benu precursor, dies in fire and is reborn, carries its parent to Heliopolis; Christian resurrection symbol.
Phoenix (1980 video game)
Phoenix (1980) is an Amstar Electronics arcade vertical shooter, distributed by Centuri and Taito, with five stages, a Force Field, and a mothership boss; a major Centuri hit and one of the most cloned games of the 1980s.
Phoenix (2014 film)
Phoenix (2014) is Christian Petzold's German drama, also known by its original German title Phoenix, in which Nina Hoss plays Auschwitz survivor Nelly Lenz, unrecognized by husband Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld), who asks her to impersonate herself; based on Monteilhet's Le retour des cendres, co-written with Harun Farocki, premiered at Toronto 2014.
Phoenix (2023 film)
Phoenix (ഫീനിക്സ്) is a 2023 Malayalam horror film, the directorial debut of Vishnu Bharathan, written by Midhun Manuel Thomas, starring Aju Varghese, Anoop Menon, and Chandhunadh; released 17 November 2023, distinct from the same-titled English action film.
Phoenix (2025 film)
Phoenix (பீனிக்ஸ்) is a 2025 Tamil sports action drama, Anl Arasu's directorial debut, starring Surya Sethupathi, son of Vijay Sethupathi, as a teenage boxer accused of murdering an MLA; released 4 July 2025, it earned about ₹4.26 crore gross and later streamed on Aha Tamil.
Phoenix (Breaking Bad)
"Phoenix" (Breaking Bad season 2, episode 12, aired May 24, 2009), written by John Shiban, directed by Colin Bucksey; the episode in which Walt watches Jane Margolis choke to death, a key turning point in his transformation.
Phoenix (mythology)
Phoenix (Greek phoinix, φοίνιξ): mythical bird of Greek and Roman myth that renews itself, told by Herodotus (500-year cycle, myrrh egg, Heliopolis), linked to the Egyptian benu, and adopted by Christians as a resurrection symbol.
Phoenix (plant)
Phoenix (date palms) is a genus of about 14 dioecious Arecaceae palms, tribe Phoeniceae, native from Africa and Crete to Malesia; includes Phoenix dactylifera, the cultivated date palm, and ornamentals like P. canariensis.
Phoenix abscess
Phoenix abscess (ICD-11 DA09.3; フェニックス膿瘍), an acute apical abscess arising from exacerbation of chronic apical periodontitis in a necrotic-pulp or endodontically treated tooth, treated by endodontic retreatment and drainage.
Phoenix Asia Real Estate Investments
Phoenix Asia Real Estate Investments is the family of Cayman Islands feeder funds through which Hong Kong-based Phoenix Property Investors, founded in 2002, raises opportunistic Pan-Asian real estate capital.
Phoenix canariensis
Phoenix canariensis, the Canary Island date palm, is a palm endemic to the Canary Islands, up to 21 m tall with thick trunks, green pinnate leaves, small orange fruits, close kinship and hybridization with Phoenix dactylifera, and widespread ornamental planting.
Phoenix Cluster
The Phoenix Cluster, also known as the Phoenix galaxy cluster, is a massive galaxy cluster about 5.8 billion light-years from Earth whose central galaxy forms stars at hundreds of solar masses per year.
Phoenix Contact
Phoenix Contact is a German, family-owned manufacturer of electrical connection technology and industrial automation equipment, founded in Essen in 1923 and headquartered in Blomberg, with about 21,000 employees and roughly €3.3 billion in revenue.
Phoenix Crown
The phoenix crown (凤冠, fengguan) is a Chinese ceremonial crown for empresses and high-ranking women, decorated with phoenixes, gold dragons, and kingfisher feathers; four Ming examples survive from the Dingling tomb.
Phoenix Forgotten
Phoenix Forgotten is a 2017 found-footage sci-fi horror film directed by Justin Barber, co-written with T.S. Nowlin, produced by Ridley Scott, about three teens who vanish investigating the 1997 Phoenix Lights.
Phoenix Games B.V.
Phoenix Games B.V. was a Dutch video game publisher of budget-priced PlayStation, Nintendo, and PC games, later part of the Phoenix Games Group, which has ceased trading.
Phoenix Hall
Phoenix Hall (鳳凰堂, Hōōdō) is the Amida Hall of Byōdō-in temple in Uji, Kyoto, Japan, built in 1053 by regent Fujiwara no Yorimichi, housing Jōchō's Amida statue and depicted on the 10-yen coin.
Phoenix Islands
Phoenix Islands (Rawaki group): eight coral islands in central Pacific Kiribati, mostly uninhabited, enclosed by the 408,250 sq km Phoenix Islands Protected Area, a UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed in 2010; commercial fishing closure of 2015 was repealed in 2021.
Phoenix Islands Protected Area
The Phoenix Islands Protected Area is a large marine protected area in Kiribati, designated in 2006 and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010.