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Tyre District: Elevation. ... ) is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District ... containing 150 Metawileh, with traces of ruins ...
The ruins of Tyre, are a collection of archaeological sites in the city of Tyre, in Southern Lebanon.Since the 1940s, the Lebanese government has been carrying out extensive excavation campaigns in the area of the Phoenician city in search of the city's antiquities and history.
Tyre is the fifth-largest city in Lebanon after Beirut, Tripoli, Sidon, and Baalbek. [5] It is the capital of the Tyre District in the South Governorate . There were approximately 200,000 inhabitants in the Tyre urban area in 2016, including many refugees , as the city hosts three of the twelve Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon: Burj El ...
Aerial photo of Tyre, c. 1918. Tyre, in Lebanon, is one of the oldest cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for over 4,700 years.Situated in the Levant on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, Tyre became the leading city of the Phoenician civilization in 969 BC with the reign of the Tyrian king Hiram I, the city of Tyre alongside its Phoenician homeland are also credited with ...
The al-Bass necropolis is a Lebanese UNESCO World Heritage Site, part of the al-Bass archaeological site in the city of Tyre situated next to the el-Buss refugee camp.The necropolis, constituting the principal entrance of the town in antique times, is to be found on either side of a wide Roman and Byzantine avenue dominated by a triumphal arch of the 2nd century.
The Phoenician sanctuary of Kharayeb (Arabic: معبد الخرايب الفينيقي) is a historic temple in the hinterland of Tyre, Southern Lebanon, that was excavated in three stages. In 1946, Maurice Chehab , head of Lebanon's Directorate General of Antiquities , led the first mission that revealed a Hellenistic period temple and ...
HAZMIEH/TYRE, Lebanon (Reuters) - When a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came into effect last week, Lebanese hotelier Abbas al-Tannoukhi leapt at the chance to bury a dead relative in ...
The 2024 Tyre airstrikes refers to the ongoing airstrikes by the Israeli Air Force within the city of Tyre and several villages in the Tyre District in southern Lebanon.The airstrikes also struck near Roman, ancient Phoenician, and Crusader archaeological sites, causing significant concern from UNESCO for the potential damaging or destruction of cultural heritage.