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A Phoenician city. Its name means Terra (i.e. Planet Earth)
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A Phoenician city. Its name means Terra (i.e. Planet Earth). The name is not Afroasiatic in origin, but Hellenic and is the root which the Tyrrhenian sea was named after. It was the greek word for the Etruscans who established the Roman Empire. According to the Talmud, Rome was established by Edom, a name which also sounds like the word for earth (Adam) in Hebrew.

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A Phoenician city. Its name means Terra (i.e. Planet Earth). The name is not Afroasiatic in origin, but Hellenic and is the root which the Tyrrhenian sea was named after. It was the greek word for the Etruscans who established the Roman Empire. According to the Talmud, Rome was established by Edom, a name which also sounds like the word for earth (Adam) in Hebrew.