Tyre
Sign in to savecity in the South Governorate of Lebanon, also an ancient Phoenician city and the legendary birthplace of Europa and Elissa (Dido)
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Tyre is a city in southern Lebanon with a rich ancient history as a major Phoenician center and the legendary birthplace of the mythological figures Europa and Dido. It remains significant today both as a modern Lebanese city and as an important archaeological site representing ancient Mediterranean civilization.
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- Locality
- صور
- Region
- محافظة الجنوب
- Country
- لبنان
- Population
- 135,204
- Timezone
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Tyre is a city in Lebanon, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It was one of the earliest Phoenician metropolises and the legendary birthplace of Europa, her brothers Cadmus and Phoenix, and Carthage's founder Dido (Elissa). The city has many ancient sites, including the Tyre Hippodrome, and was added as a whole to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1984. The historian Ernest Renan described it as "a city of ruins, built out of ruins".
Tyre is the fifth-largest city in Lebanon after Beirut, Tripoli, Sidon, and Baalbek. It is the capital of the Tyre District in the South Governorate. There were approximately 200,000 inhabitants in the Tyre urban area in 2016, including many refugees, as the city hosts three of the twelve Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon: Burj El Shimali, El Buss, and Rashidieh.
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