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.

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient city → archaeological site → port city →
ancientCulture	Phoenician civilization →
connectedToMainlandBy	causeway of Alexander the Great →
conqueredBy	Alexander the Great → Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II →
country	Lebanon →
foundedBy	Phoenicians →
hasPart	Al-Bass archaeological site → Al-Mina archaeological site → Roman aqueduct → Roman triumphal arch → Tyre Hippodrome → ancient city walls → ancient harbor structures → ancient necropolis →
heritageDesignation	UNESCO World Heritage Site →
historicalLanguage	Greek → Latin → Phoenician →
knownFor	Hellenistic remains → Phoenician colonization → Roman ruins → Tyrian purple → ancient harbors → archaeological remains → maritime trade → purple dye production → seafaring →
locatedIn	Levant → 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 → Classical antiquity →
UNESCOInscriptionYear	1984 →
UNESCOSiteId	299 →

Referenced by (18)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Canaan → Kingdom of Jerusalem → Lebanon →	majorCity
Phoenician language →	associatedWith
Motya →	connectedTo
Baal →	cultCenter
Phoenician civilization →	culturalCenter
Carthage →	foundedBy
Phoenician religion →	hasCenter
Phoenician civilization →	hasCity
Siege of Tyre →	hasLocation
Mediterranean trade routes →	majorPort
Sidon →	nearbyCity
Canaanites →	notableCity
Phoenician alphabet →	notableInscriptionSites
Siege of Tyre →	opponent
Phoenician religion →	practicedIn
Astarte →	worshippedIn