Tyre
Ancient city · Lebanon
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 2749 BC
- Population
- 160,000
- Coordinates
- 33.267, 35.200
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: city in the South Governorate of Lebanon, also an ancient Phoenician city and the legendary birthplace of Europa and Elissa (Dido)
History
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 described it as "a city of ruins, built out of ruins".