Tyre
Council site · Port
city in the South Governorate of Lebanon, also an ancient Phoenician city and the legendary birthplace of Europa and Elissa (Dido)
Approximate centre: 33.2667, 35.2000 · Pleiades 678437
What this place is
- Port — the Phoenician harbour where the ship stopped to unload her cargo
Who is recorded here
- Jesus travel · AD 29
- Paul the Apostle travel · AD 57
- Porphyry birth · AD 233
- Origen death · AD 251
- Origen death · AD 254
- Frumentius nativity · AD 300
- Frumentius birth · AD 400
- Paul the Apostle residence
What happened here
- First Synod of Tyre AD 335
In art
About the place
Tyre is a city in Lebanon, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It was one of the earliest Phoenician metropolises and the legendary birthplace of Europa, her brothers Cadmus and Phoenix, and Carthage's founder Dido (Elissa).
From Wikipedia, retrieved 2026-08-14 · CC BY-SA 4.0