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Tyre juts out from the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, and is located about 80 km (50 mi) south of Beirut.It originally consisted of two distinct urban centres: Tyre itself, which was on an island just 500 to 700m offshore, and the associated settlement of Ushu on the adjacent mainland, later called Palaetyrus, meaning "Old Tyre" in Ancient Greek. [7]
Aerial photo of Tyre, c. 1918. Tyre, in Lebanon, is one of the oldest cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for over 4,700 years.Situated in the Levant on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, Tyre became the leading city of the Phoenician civilization in 969 BC with the reign of the Tyrian king Hiram I, the city of Tyre alongside its Phoenician homeland are also credited with ...
This is a list of cities and colonies of Phoenicia in modern-day Lebanon, coastal Syria, northern Israel, as well as cities founded or developed by the Phoenicians in the Eastern Mediterranean area, North Africa, Southern Europe, and the islands of the Mediterranean Sea.
Tarshish was also the name of a short-lived political party [36] founded by Moshe Dwek, would-be assassin of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. The Greek form of the name, Tharsis, was given by Giovanni Schiaparelli to a region on Mars. The classic short story "Ship of Tarshish" by John Buchan refers to the Book of Jonah.
War has turned Lebanon's idyllic port city of Tyre into a ghost town. Tyre had been considered safe for much of the year in which Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and Israel had been exchanging fire.
In the 10th century BC, Hiram I, king of Tyre, joined two islets by landfill. Later, he extended the city further by reclaiming a considerable area from the sea. Phoenician expansion began around 815 BC when traders from Tyre founded Carthage in North Africa. Eventually its colonies spread around the Mediterranean and Atlantic, bringing to the ...
Tyre Nichols live blog. Monday 23 January 2023 21:36, Graeme Massie. This is a live blog covering the death of Memphis man Tyre Nichols after he was arrested and beaten by police in the city. More ...
Three former Memphis police officers charged in the January 2023 beating death of Tyre Nichols stood by his body and laughed after they punched, kicked and struck him with a baton in an attack ...