Sidon

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Phoenician city-state ancient city port city

Sidon is an ancient Phoenician port city, located in present-day Lebanon, that was a major center of maritime trade and culture in the eastern Mediterranean.

Statements (55)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Phoenician city-state → ancient city → port city →
archaeologicalSite	Temple of Eshmun →
continent	Asia →
country	Lebanon →
culture	Phoenician culture →
hasFeature	Phoenician sarcophagi → ancient necropolis →
hasPort	Sidon Port →
historicalEra	Byzantine period → Classical antiquity → Hellenistic period → Islamic period → Roman period →
knownFor	coinage → craftsmanship → glass production → maritime trade → purple dye production → seafaring → shipbuilding →
languageCurrentlySpoken	Arabic →
languageHistoricallySpoken	Phoenician language →
locatedIn	Eastern Mediterranean → Phoenicia → Sidon District → South Governorate → present-day Lebanon →
locatedOn	Mediterranean Sea →
majorDeityVenerated	Astarte → Baal → Eshmun →
mentionedIn	Hebrew Bible → classical Greek sources →
modernStatus	city in Lebanon →
nearbyCity	Beirut → Tyre →
partOf	Canaan → Levant →
religionHistoricallyPracticed	Phoenician religion →
ruledBy	Abbasid Caliphate → Achaemenid Empire → Byzantine Empire → Crusader states → Macedonian Empire → Mamluk Sultanate → Ottoman Empire → Phoenician kings → Roman Empire → Seleucid Empire → Umayyad Caliphate →
timePeriod	Bronze Age → Iron Age →
UNESCOTentativeList	Lebanon World Heritage Tentative List →

Referenced by (15)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Canaan → Lebanon →	majorCity
Astarte → Eshmun →	worshippedIn
Europa →	abductionLocation
Phoenician language →	associatedWith
Baal →	cultCenter
Phoenician civilization →	culturalCenter
Phoenician religion →	hasCenter
Phoenician civilization →	hasCity
Eshmun →	majorCultCenter
Mediterranean trade routes →	majorPort
Canaanites →	notableCity
Phoenician alphabet →	notableInscriptionSites
Phoenician religion →	practicedIn