Tyre, Lebanon
Tyre (Arabic: صور, Ṣūr; Phoenicie: 
, Ṣur; Hebrew: צוֹר, Tzor; Tiberian Ebreu צר, Ṣōr; Akkadian: 𒋗𒊒 Ṣurru; Greek: Τύρος, Týros; Turkis: Sur; Laitin: Tyrus) is a ceety in the Sooth Govrenorate o Lebanon. There wur approximately 117,000 inhabitants in 2003,[1] housomeivver, the govrenment o Lebanon haes released anerlie rough estimates o population numbers syne 1932, so an accurate statistical accoontin is no possible.[2] Tyre juts oot frae the coast o the Mediterranean an is locatit aboot 80 km (50 mi) sooth o Beirut. The name o the ceety means "rock"[3] efter the rocky formation on which the toun wis oreeginally built. The adjective for Tyre is Tyrian, an the inhabitants are Tyrians.
Tyre | |
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Ceety | |
 Tyre fishin harbour | |
 Map o Lebanon frae the CIA World Factbook. Tyre is near the soothren border | |
| Kintra |  Lebanon |
| Govrenorate | Sooth |
| Destrict | Tyre |
| Established | 2750 BC |
| Area | |
| • Ceety | 4 km2 (2 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 17 km2 (7 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Ceety | 60,000 |
| • Metro | 174,000 |
| Time zone | UTC+02 (Eastren European Time) |
| Teep | Cultural |
| Criteria | iii, vi |
| Designatit | 1984 (8th session) |
| Reference no. | 299 |
| State Pairty | Lebanon |
| Region | Arab States |
Tyre is an auncient Phoenicie ceety an the legendary birthplace o Europa an Elissa (Dido). The day it is the fowert lairgest ceety in Lebanon[4] an hooses ane o the naition's major ports. Tourism is a major industry. The ceety haes a number o auncient sites, includin its Roman Hippodrome which wis addit tae UNESCO's leet o Warld Heritage Sites in 1979.[5][6]
Internaitional relations eedit
Twin touns – Sister ceeties eedit
Tyre is twinned wi:
References eedit
- ↑ Lebanon - Ceety Population
- ↑ Lebanon Population
- ↑ (Bikai, P., "The Land of Tyre", in Joukowsky, M., The Heritage of Tyre, 1992, chapter 2, p. 13)
- ↑ Tyre City, Lebanon
- ↑ Resolution 459
- ↑ Lebanon's Archaeological Heritage Archived 2009-03-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 7 Mairch 2016. Retrieved 26 Januar 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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