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.

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.

The exact region referred to as " Blessed Land " in the Qur ' an verse has been interpreted differently by various scholars: Abdullah Yusuf Ali likens it to a wide land range including, Syria, Palestine and the cities of Tyre and Sidon ; Az-Zujaj describes it as, " Damascus, Palestine, and a bit of Jordan "; Qatada claims it to be, " the Levant "; Muadh ibn Jabal as, " the area between al-Arish and the Euphrates "; and Ibn Abbas as, " the land of Jericho ".

* 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.

* 64 BCE: Phoenicia and the rest of Syria became a Roman province ; Tripoli, Tyre and Sidon granted privileges of self-government ( secondary role of Tripolis compared to Beirut and Sidon ); Roman general Pompey beheaded Dionysius, the ruler of Tripolis, judged as tyrant.

They sailed first to Cyprus and spent the winter on the island, negotiating with various other powers in the east ; the Latin Empire set up after the Fourth Crusade asked for his help against the Byzantine Empire of Nicaea, and the Principality of Antioch and the Knights Templar wanted his help in Syria, where the Muslims had recently captured Sidon.

We know that in 498 he was staying at Edessa ; in or about 507, according to Theophanes, he was summoned by the emperor to Constantinople ; and he finally presided at a synod at Sidon which was the means of procuring the replacement of Flavian by Severus.

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.

Omri and Ithobaal were both usurpers ; neither was the member of a royal family before they took the throne, and so it is not reasonable that, before they became kings, an Israelite general would seek out a priest of Astarte in the kingdom of Tyre and Sidon to get a wife for his young son Ahab.

Zebulun was unable to drive them out of Kitron or Nahalol ; nor could Asher drive out the inhabitants of Acco, Sidon, Achzib, or Rehob.

The control of the high road to the Mediterranean was secured by the possession of the Hittite town of Pitru at the junction between the Euphrates and Sajur ; thence he proceeded to Gubal ( Byblos ), Sidon, and finally to Arvad where he embarked onto a ship to sail the Mediterranean, on which he killed a nahiru or " sea-horse " ( which A. Leo Oppenheim translates as a narwhal ) in the sea.

Although there were many Phoenician, Hellenistic, and Roman cities nearby ( such as Gesara and Gadara ; Sidon and Tyre ; Sepphoris and Tiberias ), the Gentile mission was, at most, peripheral to Jesus ' ministry.

19: And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza ; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

" Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon, or of Ahlab, or of Achzib, or of Helbah, or of Aphik, or of Rehob ; but the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land ; for they did not drive them out.

She induced the most eminent Greek rhetoricians to proclaim his praise in their oratory ; and to perpetuate his memory she built at Halicarnassus a celebrated majestic monument, listed by Antipater of Sidon as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and whose name subsequently became the generic term for any splendid sepulchral monument ( mausoleum, Greek: μαυσωλεῖον ).

Like Epicurus, a considerable number of spurious works seem to have been assigned to him ; one of these was Against the Orators, whose authenticity was attacked both by Zeno of Sidon and his pupil Philodemus.

Gerard of Ridefort, master of the Knights Templar ; Roger de Moulins, master of the Knights Hospitaller ; Balian of Ibelin, Joscius, Archbishop of Tyre ; and Reginald Grenier, lord of Sidon, were sent to Tiberias to negotiate with Raymond.

# Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah ( Ezekiel 4: 1 – 24: 27 ) and on the nations ( Ezekiel 25: 1 – 32: 32 ): Yahweh warns of the certain destruction of Jerusalem and the devastation of the nations that have troubled his people, the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites and Philistines, the Phoenician cities of Tyre and Sidon, and Egypt.

On the other hand, peace with Sidon also resulted in the penetration of Phoenician religious ideas into the kingdom and led to a kulturkampf between traditionalists ( as personified by the prophet Elijah and his followers ) and the aristocracy ( as personified by Omri's son and heir Ahab and his consort Jezebel ).

Like other Phoenician city-states, Sidon suffered from a succession of conquerors.

In the territory of Phoenician Sidon, Lucian of Samosata ( 2nd century AD ) was informed that the temple of Astarte, whom Lucian equated with the moon goddess, was sacred to Europa:

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.

** Sidon, firstborn son of Canaan, and name one of the oldest city-states on the Phoenician coast.

* Ptolemy gains control over Cyprus and the Phoenician coastal towns of Tyre and Sidon.

* With the Persian empire weakening, revolts occur in many parts of the empire, including Sidon, a prosperous and rich Phoenician city.

During Hiram's reign, Tyre grew from a satellite of Sidon into the most important of Phoenician cities, and the holder of a large trading empire.

The Phoenician inscription on the sarcophagus of King Eshmunʿazar of Sidon ( 5th century ) relates ( ANET, p. 662 ): " Furthermore, the Lord of Kings gave us Dor and Joppa, the mighty lands of Dagon, which are in the Plain of Sharon, in accordance with the important deeds which I did.

Historical examples include the oldest known Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia and Ur, the Phoenician cities of Canaan ( such as Tyre and Sidon ), the Berber city-states of the Garamantes, the city-states of ancient Greece ( the poleis such as Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and Corinth ), the Roman Republic which grew from a city-state into a great power, the Maya of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica ( including sites such as Chichen Itza, Tikal, Palenque and El Mirador ), the central Asian cities along the Silk Road, Venice, Croatian city-state of Ragusa ( Dubrovnik ) and many others.

After the battle of Issus ( 333 BC ), when Alexander was proceeding south down the Phoenician coast and had received the capitulation of Sidon, Hephaestion was "... authorised to appoint to the throne the Sidonian he considered most deserving of that high office.

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.

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.

The wife of Belus has been named as Achiroe, or Side ( eponym of the Phoenician city of Sidon ).

Eshmun ( or Eshmoun, less accurately Esmun or Esmoun ) was a Phoenician god of healing and the tutelary god of Sidon.

Eshmunazar was the name of several Phoenician kings of Sidon.

The sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II, which is now in the Louvre, was unearthed in 1855 in a site near Sidon, and contains an inscription-known as KAI-14, in Phoenician Canaanite, inscribed using the Phoenician alphabet.

The area offers a great number of attractions, including pristine white sandy beaches south of Tyre, and the opportunity to snorkel or dive among submerged Phoenician and Roman ruins near the ancient cities of Sidon and Tyre.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.