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ID: 7002862
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002862

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Tyre (inhabited place)  Tyre (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 33 16 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 33.2667  decimal degrees
Long: 035 11 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 35.1833  decimal degrees

Note: Modern city on the site of an ancient Phoenician city. Tyre originally consisted of two distinct urban centers, Tyre on an offshore island and the settlement of Ushu on the adjacent mainland; Alexander the Great connected the island to the mainland coast by constructing a causeway during his siege of the city. Was legendary home of the Biblical king Hiram; withstood attacks from Assyrians and Babylonians; resisted Nebuchadnezzar II 6th century BCE; captured by Alexander 332 BCE; controlled by Seleucids and Romans 7th century CE; taken by Crusaders 1124; fell to Muslims 1291; ruins of its Roman Hippodrome was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984.

Names:
Tyre (preferred,C,O,LC,O,English-P,U,N)
Tyr (C,O)
Ṣur (C,V,Phoenician,U)
Sur (C,V,Turkish (transliterated),U,N)
Soûr (C,V)
Ṣūr (C,V,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
صور (C,V,Arabic,U)
El Sur (C,V)
Es Sur (C,V,LC)
El Su (C,V)
Sour (C,O)
Zor (C,O)
Zōr (C,V)
Tyrus (H,O,Latin,U,N)  ............ ancient
Tyrus Syriae (H,V)
Tyros (H,V)
Týros (C,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
Τύρος (C,V,Greek,U)
Tzor (H,V,Hebrew (transliterated),U)
צוֹר (H,V,Hebrew ,U)
צר (H,V,Hebrew ,U)
Tyrian (C,V,English,U,A)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Lubnān (nation)  ........  Lubnān (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Liban-Sud (governorate)  ............  Liban-Sud (governorate) (P)
Hierarchy of Tyre (inhabited place)  ................  Tyre (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  habitation dates to 1750 BCE; founded in 15th cen. BCE
town (C)
World Heritage Site (C)  ............  1984
administrative center (H)  ............  was chief city of medieval Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem from 1124
capital (H)  ............  of Phoenicia, 11th cen. BCE-573 BCE
commercial center (H)  ............  for centuries as center of Phoenician civilization & chief sea power
archiepiscopal see (H)
Phoenician (H)

Related geographic places:
located on ....  Silk Road .......... (road)
..................  (World) [7031416]

Sources and Contributors:
صور..........  [VP]
...........  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
צוֹר..........  [VP]
...........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
צר..........  [VP]
...........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Τύρος..........  [VP]
..............  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
El Su..........  [VP]
..............  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
El Sur..........  [GRLPSC]
.................  GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
Es Sur..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
.................  Library of Congress Name Authority File 85064197, accessed 15 July 2010
.................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
Soûr..........  [VP]
...........  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
Sour..........  [VP]
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1241
Ṣūr..........  [VP]
...........  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
...........  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Sur..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
...........  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
Týros..........  [VP]
..............  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Tyr..........  [BHA, VP]
...........  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
...........  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
Tyre..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
...........  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........  Library of Congress Name Authority File 85064197, accessed 15 July 2010
...........  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) 36SYB043308373
...........  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1241
Tyrian..........  [VP]
.................  Oxford English Dictionary [online] (2002-)
Tyros..........  [VP]
..............  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Tyrus..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
..............  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8537
..............  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Tyrus Syriae..........  [VP]
.......................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Tzor..........  [VP]
...........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Ṣur..........  [VP]
...........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Zor..........  [VP]
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1241
Zōr..........  [VP]
...........  Library of Congress Name Authority File 85064197, accessed 15 July 2010
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8537
..................  GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-) accessed 15 July 2010
..................  UNESCO: Silk Road (2016-) accessed 23 February 2016
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1241
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
..........  UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-) accessed 15 July 1984

 

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