Tyre

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ancient city archaeological site port city

Tyre is an ancient Phoenician port city, in present-day Lebanon, renowned as a major maritime, commercial, and cultural center of the Mediterranean world.

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Label Occurrences
Tyre canonical 69

Statements (54)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient city ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ
port city ⓘ
ancientCulture Phoenician civilization ⓘ
connectedToMainlandBy causeway of Alexander the Great ⓘ
conqueredBy Alexander the Great ⓘ
Nebuchadnezzar II ⓘ
surface form: Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II
country Lebanon ⓘ
foundedBy Phoenician civilization ⓘ
surface form: Phoenicians
hasPart Al-Bass archaeological site ⓘ
Al-Mina archaeological site ⓘ
Aqua Virgo aqueduct ⓘ
surface form: Roman aqueduct

Roman triumphal arch ⓘ
Tyre Hippodrome ⓘ
ancient city walls ⓘ
ancient harbor structures ⓘ
ancient necropolis ⓘ
heritageDesignation UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ
historicalLanguage Greek ⓘ
Latin ⓘ
Phoenician language ⓘ
surface form: Phoenician
knownFor Hellenistic remains ⓘ
Phoenician colonization ⓘ
Roman ruins ⓘ
Tyrian purple ⓘ
ancient harbors ⓘ
archaeological remains ⓘ
maritime trade ⓘ
purple dye production ⓘ
seafaring ⓘ
locatedIn Levant region ⓘ
surface form: Levant

Phoenician civilization ⓘ
surface form: Phoenicia

South Governorate ⓘ
locatedOn Mediterranean Sea ⓘ
Tyre Peninsula ⓘ
modernPopulationApprox over 100000 inhabitants ⓘ
originallyLocatedOn offshore island ⓘ
partOf Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ
primaryLanguage Arabic ⓘ
religiousSignificance important in early Christianity ⓘ
mentioned in the Bible ⓘ
ruledBy Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ
Achaemenid Empire ⓘ
Byzantine Empire ⓘ
Crusader states ⓘ
Hellenistic kingdoms ⓘ
Mamluk Sultanate ⓘ
Ottoman Empire ⓘ
Roman Empire ⓘ
Umayyad Caliphate ⓘ
timePeriodOfFlourishing 1st millennium BCE ⓘ
Ancient Mediterranean world ⓘ
surface form: Classical antiquity
UNESCOInscriptionYear 1984 ⓘ
UNESCOSiteId 299 ⓘ

Referenced by (69)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Phoenician alphabet → notableInscriptionSites → Tyre ⓘ
Phoenician civilization → hasCity → Tyre ⓘ
Phoenician civilization → culturalCenter → Tyre ⓘ
Lebanon → majorCity → Tyre ⓘ
Canaan → majorCity → Tyre ⓘ
Carthage → foundedBy → Tyre ⓘ
Sidon → nearbyCity → Tyre ⓘ
Phoenician language → associatedWith → Tyre ⓘ
Phoenician religion → practicedIn → Tyre ⓘ
Phoenician religion → hasCenter → Tyre ⓘ
Baal → cultCenter → Tyre ⓘ
Motya → connectedTo → Tyre ⓘ
Astarte → worshippedIn → Tyre ⓘ
Mediterranean trade routes → majorPort → Tyre ⓘ
Siege of Tyre → hasLocation → Tyre ⓘ
Siege of Tyre → opponent → Tyre ⓘ
Canaanites → notableCity → Tyre ⓘ
Kingdom of Jerusalem → majorCity → Tyre ⓘ
southern Lebanon → contains → Tyre ⓘ
subject surface form: Southern Lebanon
southern Lebanon → majorCity → Tyre ⓘ
subject surface form: Southern Lebanon
Naqoura, Lebanon → locatedSouthOf → Tyre ⓘ
subject surface form: Naqoura
Agenor → associatedWith → Tyre ⓘ
Telephassa → associatedWithRegion → Tyre ⓘ
Psalm 87 → mentionsNation → Tyre ⓘ
Elissa → associatedWith → Tyre ⓘ
Elissa → placeOfOrigin → Tyre ⓘ
Elissa → fledFrom → Tyre ⓘ
Carthaginian Empire → foundedBy → Tyre ⓘ
Psalm 83 → mentionsEntity → Tyre ⓘ
South Governorate → containsCity → Tyre ⓘ
South Governorate → containsHistoricSite → Tyre ⓘ
South Governorate → containsPortCity → Tyre ⓘ
South Governorate → hasHistoricCity → Tyre ⓘ
South Governorate → containsArchaeologicalSite → Tyre ⓘ
Tyrian purple → namedAfter → Tyre ⓘ
Al-Bass archaeological site → locatedIn → Tyre ⓘ
Al-Bass archaeological site → partOf → Tyre ⓘ
Tyre Peninsula → hasCity → Tyre ⓘ
Tyre Hippodrome → locatedIn → Tyre ⓘ
Tyre Hippodrome → partOfUNESCOSite → Tyre ⓘ
Al-Mina archaeological site → associatedWith → Tyre ⓘ
Pope Leo XII → appointedArchbishopOf → Tyre ⓘ
Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre → seeCity → Tyre ⓘ
Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre → territoryIncludes → Tyre ⓘ
Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre → primaryCity → Tyre ⓘ
Coele-Syria → hasCity → Tyre ⓘ
Punic (Carthaginian) people → culturalOrigin → Tyre ⓘ
subject surface form: Punic people
Canaanite religion → hasCultCenter → Tyre ⓘ
St. Frumentius (Abba Salama) → placeOfOrigin → Tyre ⓘ
subject surface form: St. Frumentius
Porphyry → birthPlace → Tyre ⓘ