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.

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

In Genesis, Sidon is the son of Canaan the grandson of Noah.

Sidon ( whose name in classical Arabic is: ص َ ي ْ دون ْ ( Saydoon )) has been inhabited since very early in prehistory.

The historical core of Sidon is a Mamluk-era old city that extends between the Sea Castle and the St. Louis Castle.

The city of Sidon is administrated by the Municipality of Sidon.

The city is also the center of the Sidon District and the Union of Sidon and Zahrani Municipalities ( founded in 1978 and contains 15 municipalities ).

Sidon is a conservative city with a Sunni Muslim majority: Sunnis make up approximately ( 80 %) of the local population, Shiites and Christians combined make up ( 20 %).

Sidon is the seat of the Greek Melkite Catholic Archbishop of Sidon and Deir el Qamar, and has housed a significant Catholic population throughout its history.

* After being besieged by the Persian forces of King Artaxerxes III, Sidon is taken and its population is punished with great cruelty.

* Sidon is besieged by Persian forces.

Suda's extraordinary account of the poet's death is found in other sources, such as Plutarch and Antipater of Sidon and later it inspired Friedrich Schiller to write a ballad called " The Cranes of Ibycus " yet the legend might be derived merely from a play upon the poet's name and the Greek word for the bird or ibyx — it might even have been told of somebody else originally.

He is best known for the monumental shrine, the Mausoleum of Mausolus, erected for him by order of his sister and widow Artemisia ; Antipater of Sidon listed the Mausoleum as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Sidon is a town in Leflore County, Mississippi.

Sidon is located at ( 33. 408096 ,-90. 208813 ).

The Town of Sidon is served by the Leflore County School District.

The anonymous text De Expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum Libellus claims that Raymond, Joscelin, Balian, and Reginald of Sidon fled the field in the middle of the battle, trampling " the Christians, the Turks, and the Cross " in the process, but this is not corroborated by other accounts and reflects the author's hostility to the Poleins.

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

Olympia is also known for the gigantic ivory and gold statue of Zeus that used to stand there, sculpted by Pheidias, which was named one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Antipater of Sidon.

Here the argument is made that the Ahab / Jezebel marriage was obviously an affair of state that would only have occurred after Omri, Ahab's father, was firmly in control of his kingdom, and Ithobaal, Jezebel's father, was firmly in control of Tyre and Sidon.

In ancient times, it was the center of a Phoenician confederation which included Tyre, Sidon and Arados, hence the name Tripoli, meaning " triple city " in Greek.

In the 9th century BCE, the Phoenicians established a trading station in Tripoli and later, under Persian rule, the city became the center of a confederation of the Phoenician city states of Sidon, Tyre, and Arados Island.

* 358 BCE: Triple city coalesced into one entity ; became the center of Phoenician confederation and neutral meeting ground for the governors of the three main Phoenician cities / seaports: Aradus ( modern Ruad in Syria ), Sidon, and Tyre.

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.

# South ( Sidon )

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

* Moustafa el-Assad, Blue Steel 2: M-3 Halftracks in South Lebanon, Blue Steel Books, Sidon 2006.

* Moustafa el-Assad, Blue Steel III: M-113 Carriers in South Lebanon, Blue Steel Books, Sidon 2007.

* North Africa 1940 – 41, Bardia 1941, Capture of Tobruk, Cerna Giaabub, Syria 1941, Meejayun, Adlum, Sidon, Darmour, South West Pacific 1944 – 45, Liberation of Australian New Guinea, Abau-Malin, Anub River, Maprik, Wewak, Wirui Mission.

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.

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 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.

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:

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

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.