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)
UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid
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]

1. ↑ Lebanon - Ceety Population
2. ↑ Lebanon Population
3. ↑ (Bikai, P., "The Land of Tyre", in Joukowsky, M., The Heritage of Tyre, 1992, chapter 2, p. 13)
4. ↑ Tyre City, Lebanon
5. ↑ Resolution 459
6. ↑ Lebanon's Archaeological Heritage Archived 2009-03-11 at the Wayback Machine