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.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Sidon canonical 51
Sidon Municipality 1
ancient city of Sidon 1

Statements (55)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Phoenician city-state ⓘ
ancient city ⓘ
port city ⓘ
archaeologicalSite Temple of Eshmun ⓘ
continent Asia ⓘ
country Lebanon ⓘ
culture Phoenician civilization ⓘ
surface form: Phoenician culture
hasFeature Phoenician sarcophagi ⓘ
ancient necropolis ⓘ
hasPort Sidon Port ⓘ
historicalEra Byzantine Empire ⓘ
surface form: Byzantine period

Ancient Mediterranean world ⓘ
surface form: Classical antiquity

Hellenistic period ⓘ
Early Islamic period ⓘ
surface form: Islamic period

Roman Antiquity ⓘ
surface form: Roman period
knownFor coinage ⓘ
craftsmanship ⓘ
glass production ⓘ
maritime trade ⓘ
purple dye production ⓘ
seafaring ⓘ
shipbuilding ⓘ
languageCurrentlySpoken Arabic ⓘ
languageHistoricallySpoken Phoenician language ⓘ
locatedIn Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ
Phoenician civilization ⓘ
surface form: Phoenicia

Sidon District ⓘ
South Governorate ⓘ
present-day Lebanon ⓘ
locatedOn Mediterranean Sea ⓘ
majorDeityVenerated Astarte ⓘ
Baal ⓘ
Eshmun ⓘ
mentionedIn Tanakh ⓘ
surface form: Hebrew Bible

classical Greek sources ⓘ
modernStatus city in Lebanon ⓘ
nearbyCity Beirut ⓘ
Tyre ⓘ
partOf Canaan ⓘ
Levant region ⓘ
surface form: Levant
religionHistoricallyPracticed Phoenician religion ⓘ
ruledBy Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ
Achaemenid Empire ⓘ
Byzantine Empire ⓘ
Crusader states ⓘ
Macedon ⓘ
surface form: 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 (54)

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

Phoenician alphabet → notableInscriptionSites → Sidon ⓘ
Phoenician civilization → hasCity → Sidon ⓘ
Phoenician civilization → culturalCenter → Sidon ⓘ
Lebanon → majorCity → Sidon ⓘ
Canaan → majorCity → Sidon ⓘ
Phoenician language → associatedWith → Sidon ⓘ
Phoenician religion → practicedIn → Sidon ⓘ
Phoenician religion → hasCenter → Sidon ⓘ
Baal → cultCenter → Sidon ⓘ
Eshmun → worshippedIn → Sidon ⓘ
Eshmun → majorCultCenter → Sidon ⓘ
Europa → abductionLocation → Sidon ⓘ
Astarte → worshippedIn → Sidon ⓘ
Mediterranean trade routes → majorPort → Sidon ⓘ
Canaanites → notableCity → Sidon ⓘ
southern Lebanon → contains → Sidon ⓘ
subject surface form: Southern Lebanon
southern Lebanon → majorCity → Sidon ⓘ
subject surface form: Southern Lebanon
Jezebel → associatedWithPlace → Sidon ⓘ
Antipater of Sidon → placeOfOrigin → Sidon ⓘ
Antipater of Sidon → placeOfBirth → Sidon ⓘ
Rafic Hariri → placeOfBirth → Sidon ⓘ
South Governorate → capital → Sidon ⓘ
South Governorate → containsCity → Sidon ⓘ
South Governorate → largestCity → Sidon ⓘ
South Governorate → containsPortCity → Sidon ⓘ
South Governorate → hasHistoricCity → Sidon ⓘ
South Governorate → containsArchaeologicalSite → Sidon ⓘ
Sidon District → hasCapital → Sidon ⓘ
Sidon District → hasLargestCity → Sidon ⓘ
Sidon District → contains → Sidon ⓘ
Sidon District → administrativeCenter → Sidon ⓘ
Sidon District → governorateCapital → Sidon ⓘ
Sidon District → hasMunicipality → Sidon ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sidon Municipality
Temple of Eshmun → locatedIn → Sidon ⓘ
Sidon Port → locatedIn → Sidon ⓘ
Sidon Port → partOf → Sidon ⓘ
this entity surface form: ancient city of Sidon
Coele-Syria → hasCity → Sidon ⓘ
Lord of Healing → worshipRegion → Sidon ⓘ
subject surface form: Eshmun
Canaanite religion → hasCultCenter → Sidon ⓘ
Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Sidon → locatedIn → Sidon ⓘ
Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Sidon → territoryIncludes → Sidon ⓘ
this entity surface form: city of Sidon
Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Sidon → hasCathedralCity → Sidon ⓘ
Resheph → veneratedIn → Sidon ⓘ
Seleucid navy → hadBase → Sidon ⓘ
Shalmaneser III → recordedTributeFrom → Sidon ⓘ
Arados → subordinateTo → Sidon ⓘ
Zarephath (biblical town) → locatedBetween → Sidon ⓘ
subject surface form: Zarephath
coastal plain of Lebanon → contains → Sidon ⓘ
Jabal Amel → hasMajorCity → Sidon ⓘ
Phoenician shophet → usedIn → Sidon ⓘ