In addition to Syrian backing, Amal received some financial support from Libya and Iran – first by the Shah in 1975-78, replaced after 1979 by the new Islamic regime – and from the Lebanese Shi ’ ite immigrant community in West Africa ; additional revenues were levied in illegal ports such as Ouzai in Beirut, along with Zahrani, whose harbour and the adjacent Tapline oil refinery were employed in the contraband of fuel, and Sarafand ( used for smuggling imported cars and other goods ), both located south of Sidon.

Headed by Amal ’ s vice-president Muhammad Baydoun and based at the Christian town of Maghdouché near Sidon, it was responsible for running schools, hospitals, and conducting public works on Shia areas.

The Resistance and Development Bloc, a joint ticket by the two main Shiite parties Amal and Hezbollah, in addition to Bahiya Al-Hariri, the sister of the assassinated late Prime Minister Rafic Al-Hariri and Oussama Saad from Sidon, won all 23 seats.

Following the Palestinian exodus in 1948, a considerable number of Palestinian refugees arrived in Sidon, as in other Lebanese cities, and were settled at the large refugee camps of Ein el-Hilweh and Mieh Mieh.

He was buried in a Palestinian flag, and in the media, the Sidon riots became somehow fused with the Palestinian war with Israel in the minds of media watchers.

Although most of the Palestinian guerrillas were expelled during the 1982 Israeli invasion, Palestinian militias began to regain their footing after the Israeli withdrawal from first Beirut, then Sidon and Tyre.

Palestinian forces managed to occupy the Amal-controlled town of Maghdouché on the eastern hills of Sidon to open the road to Rashidiyye.

Palestinian forces in Sidon managed to occupy the Christian town of Maghdouché on the eastern hills of Sidon to open the road to Rashidiyye.

In Sidon, the Israel Air Force ( IAF ) launched several air strikes against Palestinian positions around the city.

He was exiled in the south of Lebanon with his family after the 1948 Palestinian exodus ( the Nakba ), and lived in Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near Sidon, where he attended the Union of Christian Churches school.

At Ain al-Hilweh near to the largest Palestinian refugee camp located on the outskirts of the port of Sidon in Lebanon, the organization developed links with paramilitary groups among other ethnic groups which has harbored historic grievances against Turkey such as the ethnic Armenian ASALA.

John did accompany Frederick to the mainland, but Frederick was not well-received there ; one of his few supporters was Balian, Lord of Sidon, who had welcomed the crusaders the year before and now acted as an ambassador to the Ayyubids.

As the kingdom was by now a relatively unimportant state, the Mongols paid little attention to it, but there were a few skirmishes in 1260: the forces of Julian of Sidon killed the nephew of Kitbuqa, who responded by sacking Sidon, and John II of Beirut was also captured by the Mongols during another raid.

In this inscription the gods Eshmun and Ba ‘ al Sidon ' Lord of Sidon ' ( who may or may not be the same ) are mentioned as chief gods of the Sidonians.

This trend continued under Tukulti-Ninurta I ( 1244 – 1208 BC ) and after a hiatus, Tiglath-Pileser I ( 1115 – 1077 BC ) who conquered the Aramaeans of northern Syria, and thence he proceeded to conquer Damascus and the Canaanite / Phoenician cities of ( Byblos ), Sidon, Tyre and finally Arvad.

On his return, Sidon was captured with aid from Ordelafo Faliero ( who brought a Venetian fleet of 100 ships ) and Sigurd I of Norway.

Amalric had also obtained the patronage of King Baldwin IV and of his mother Agnes of Courtenay who held the county of Jaffa and Ascalon and was married to Reginald of Sidon.

After Demetrius ' captivity, his younger brother, Antiochus VII Sidetes, who was raised in the city of Sidon of Pamphylia ( hence his last name ), returned and claimed the throne.

Peter of Roche was the crusader Bishop of Winchester who contributed to the defences of Jaffa and Sidon.

Raymond III of Tripoli and his stepsons, Reginald of Sidon and several other leading nobles who had escaped the battle had fled to Tyre, but most were anxious to return to their own territories to defend them.

Amalric I had married twice, to Agnes of Courtenay, now married to Reginald of Sidon, and to Maria Comnena, the dowager Queen, who had married Balian of Ibelin in 1177.

Pierre Coupel, who had undertaken similar work at the Tower of the Lions and the two castles at Sidon, supervised the work.

# Euphemie ( died 1309 ), who married to Julian Grenier, Lord of Sidon

The latter recommended him to the Bishop of Sidon and Beiteddine, Abdullah al-Bustani, who sent him at the age of 11 to the school at ‘ Ayn Warqa, the most famous school of that period, to continue his studies there.

Almaric's wives, Agnes of Courtenay, now married to Reginald of Sidon, and Maria Comnena, the dowager Queen, who had married Balian of Ibelin in 1177.

He had also obtained the patronage of Agnes of Courtenay, the divorced mother of King Baldwin IV, who held the county of Jaffa and Ascalon and was married to Reginald of Sidon.

This song has much in common with a medieval tale about a knight who slays a terrifyingly fiendish boar in Sidon, in the fourteenth century romance of Sir Eglamour of Artois.

* Helvis of Ibelin, who married ( 1 ) Reginald of Sidon ; ( 2 ) Guy of Montfort.

With Emelota he was the father of Eustace II and Walter, who succeeded him in Sidon and Caesarea respectively and were important nobles in their own right.

The state tried to suppress the demonstrators, and a sniper reportedly killed a popular figure in the city, the former Mayor of Sidon, Maroof Saad.

The Ma ' ans chose for their abode the Chouf District in south-western Lebanon ( southern Mount Lebanon Governorate ), overlooking the maritime plain between Beirut and Sidon, and made their headquarters in Baaqlin, which is still a leading Druze village.

Its capital was moved to Acre and controlled most of the coastline of present day Israel and southern and central Lebanon, including the strongholds and towns of Jaffa, Arsuf, Caesarea, Tyre, Sidon, and Beirut.

Sidon hosts the southern regional headquarters of a series of governmental facilities like the Central Bank of Lebanon, Électricité du Liban, Central Telecommunications Station and others.

Approximately 100 Syrian commandos, fighting alongside soldiers of the Lebanese Army's Sixth Brigade, occupied key positions along the strategic coastal highway linking Beirut with southern Lebanon and took control of the bridge over the Awwali River, near Sidon.

Outside the Capital, they also operated at Baalbek and Hermel in the Beqaa, and in the southern Jabal Amel region, notably around the port cities of Tyre and Sidon down to the UNIFIL zone.

The group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing near a British school in Qatar, and / or the name of a Salafi-influenced group in the Ein el-Hilweh camp refugee camp near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon.

Although it was active mostly in West Beirut and Tripoli, the LCP / PG also kept underground cells at the Sidon, Tyre and Nabatiyeh districts of the Jabal Amel region of southern Lebanon.

Metal-coated glass mirrors are said to have been invented in Sidon ( modern-day Lebanon ) in the first century AD, and glass mirrors backed with gold leaf are mentioned by the Roman author Pliny in his Natural History, written in about 77 AD.

Sidon or Saïda (, ; Phoenician: < span dir =" rtl "> צדן </ span >, Ṣydwn ; ; ;, Ṣīḏōn, ) is the third-largest city in Lebanon.

Sidon is the center of the Governorate of South Lebanon, and hosts the seat of the Governor of Southern Lebanon.

In the 2000 and 2005 parliamentary elections, the Sidon District along with the Tyre and Bint Jbeil districts formed the first electoral district of South Lebanon.

Sidon also hosts the seats of the Sunni and the Shiite Muftis of South Lebanon.

In the 1930s, when Lebanon was still under the French mandate, Sidon had the largest Jewish population estimated at 3, 588 with 3, 060 in Beirut.

Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sidon after Sidon, a city in Lebanon:

Lady Hester settled near Sidon, a town on the Mediterranean coast in what is now Lebanon, about halfway between Tyre and Beirut.

The PLO had taken over the heart of Sidon and Tyre in the early 1970s, it controlled great swathes of south Lebanon, in which the indigenous Shiite population had to suffer the humiliation of passing though PLO checkpoints and now they had worked their way by force into Beirut.

By 1617, political changes in the Ottoman sultanate had resulted in the removal of many of Fakhr-al-Din's enemies from power, allowing Fahkr-al-Din's return to Lebanon, whereupon he was able quickly to reunite all the lands of Lebanon beyond the boundaries of its mountains ; and having revenge from Emir Yusuf Pasha ibn Siyfa, attacking his stronghold in Akkar, destroying his palaces and taking control of his lands, and regaining the territories he had to give up in 1613 in Sidon, Tripoli, Bekaa among others.

El-Hage was born to a Maronite Christian family in Sidon, Lebanon on 25 July 1960 but grew up in Muslim Kuwait, where he converted to Islam.

Rebuilding of the historical city centre of Sidon in Lebanon after the civil war.

They needed a naval base on the coast of Lebanon or Palestine but the Phoenician cities of Sidon and Tyre held much of the mainland coast and those cities were loyal to Persia.

Bahia Hariri was born in Sidon, located in the Southern governorate in Lebanon, in 1952.

In 1970, she graduated from a teacher ’ s academy, and worked as a teacher upon graduation in Sidon and the south Lebanon until 1979.

* the Arabic name for Sidon, a city in Lebanon

* Moustafa El-Assad, Blue Steel IV: M-50 Shermans and M-50 APCs in South Lebanon, Blue Steel books, Sidon 2007.

The name Greater Lebanon refers to the incorporation of the former Ottoman districts of Tripoli and Sidon as well as the Bekaa Valley to the existing former autonomous region of Mount Lebanon, which had been established in 1861 to protect the local Christian population.