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Tyre
city in the South Governorate of Lebanon, also an ancient Phoenician city and the legendary birthplace of Europa and Elissa (Dido)
Details
- Instance of
- city, village/town/city in Lebanon, big city, ancient city, city-state
- Inception
- 2750 BCE
- Located in
- Tyre District, Syria Phoenice, Phoenicia
- Country
- Lebanon, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, Ottoman Empire, French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, Roman Empire
- Capital of
- Tyre District, Syria Phoenice
- Present in work
- Civilization V
- Population
- 160000
- Area
- 5
- Elevation
- 10 m
- category for people born here
- Q9227679
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Tyre
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Tyre, Lebanon
- described by source
- Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus, Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 12, Meyer’s Universum, Dritter Band
- native label
- صور
- official name
- صور
- topic's main category
- Category:Tyre, Lebanon
- twinned administrative body
- Algiers, Dezful, Málaga, Perpignan, Tunis, Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole, Novorossiysk
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