Tyre, Lebanon (lbn)

Tyre, Lebanon

Tyre, Lebanon ranks 1,336th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Altenburg, Verviers, and Malden, Massachusetts. Memorable people born in Tyre, Lebanon include Porphyry, Dido, and Ulpian. Memorable people who died in Tyre, Lebanon include Origen, William of Tyre, and Conrad of Montferrat. Tyre, Lebanon has been the birth place of many religious figures, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and philosophers. Tyre, Lebanon is located in Lebanon.

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). The city has many ancient sites, including the Tyre Hippodrome, and was added as a whole to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1984. The historian Ernest Renan noted that "One can call Tyre a city of ruins, built out of ruins". Read more on Wikipedia