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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 |
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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. |
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| Tyre (preferred,C,O,LC,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Tyr (C,O)
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| Ṣur (C,V,Phoenician,U)
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| Sur (C,V,Turkish (transliterated),U,N)
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| Soûr (C,V)
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| Ṣūr (C,V,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| صور (C,V,Arabic,U)
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| El Sur (C,V)
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| Es Sur (C,V,LC)
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| El Su (C,V)
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| Sour (C,O)
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| Zor (C,O)
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| Zōr (C,V)
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| Tyrus (H,O,Latin,U,N)
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| Tyrus Syriae (H,V)
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| Tyros (H,V)
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| Týros (C,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
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| Τύρος (C,V,Greek,U)
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| Tzor (H,V,Hebrew (transliterated),U)
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| צוֹר (H,V,Hebrew ,U)
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| צר (H,V,Hebrew ,U)
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| Tyrian (C,V,English,U,A)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Tyre (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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habitation dates to 1750 BCE; founded in 15th cen. BCE |
| town (C) |
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| World Heritage Site (C) |
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1984 |
| administrative center (H) |
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was chief city of medieval Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem from 1124 |
| capital (H) |
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of Phoenicia, 11th cen. BCE-573 BCE |
| commercial center (H) |
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for centuries as center of Phoenician civilization & chief sea power |
| archiepiscopal see (H) |
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| Phoenician (H) |
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Related geographic places: |
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Silk Road .......... (road) |
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(World) [7031416] |
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