| TO SEE IN LEBANON - Tyr - |
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Prosperous and enchanting island city, thanks to
its glass manufacturing and the production of its famous
purple dye, Tyre often brought the envious eyes of the conquering hordes. |
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A FEW HISTORIC MARKS |
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Tyre was founded at the start of the 3rd century BC as a modest
island city.
Its first golden age began in the 9th and 8th century BC when Phoenician traders
from Tyre founded colonies around the Mediterranean and Atlantic. Tyre's splendid
life style catered to an affluent merchant class whose newly acquired wealth and
prosperity made many powerful enemies such as the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar
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After its Hellenistic period, Tyre fell under Roman
rule in 64 BC. During this period, the Romans built many impressive monuments,
including an aqueduct, a triumphal arch, and the largest hippodrome in antiquity.
Later, under the Byzantine era, Tyre witnesses a second golden age, consequence
of the commerce of purple dye.
Then Tyre passed under the conquering Islamic army in 634. It continued to prosper
exporting sugar, as well as, objects made of pearl and glass.
From the 10th century to the early 20th century, the invading armies of the Crusaders,
the Mameluks, and the Ottomans came, saw and conquered this prosperous little
island city. It was not until the end of the First World War that Tyre became
integrated into the new nation of Lebanon. |
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TO SEE |
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- The ancient Phoenician port,
- Roman and Byzantine roads,
- Extensive Necropolis,
- Roman hippodromes,
- Roman aqueducts,
And much more. |
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