Tyre, Lebanon
Tyre | |
|---|---|
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 (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 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 | eedit soorce]Twin touns – Sister ceeties
[eedit | eedit soorce]Tyre is twinned wi:
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ 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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