It was also around this time that William of Tyre was promoted to archdeacon of Tyre, and was recruited by Amalric to write a history of the kingdom.

David conquers the Jebusite fortress of Jerusalem, and makes it his capital, and " Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.

John also attacked Tyre, but was defeated by Filangieri at the Battle of Casal Imbert in May, 1232.

Solomon is described as completing its construction, with the help of an architect, also named Hiram, and other materials, sent from King Hiram of Tyre.

It was also from here that a colonizing party went to found the city of Tyre.

They point out that Hadad was also worshipped in Tyre.

The columns of the Melqart temple at Tyre were also of religious significance.

It is also probable that the Phoenicians had bases in Genoa, or in the nearby area, since an inscription with an alphabet similar to that used in Tyre has been found.

Hiram was succeeded as king of Tyre by his son Baal-Eser I. Hiram is also mentioned in the writings of Menander of Ephesus, as preserved in Josephus ’ s Against Apion, where some additional information is given that is not found in the Bible.

Pygmalion ( also known as Pu ' mayyaton ) was king of Tyre from 831 to 785 BC and a son of King Mattan I ( 840-832 BC ).

At the same time, Tyre also built new overseas colonies: Botrys ( now Batrun ) near Byblos, and Auza in Libya.

Junius was subsequently divided to form new towns: Wolcott, in Wayne County ( 1807 ), Galen also in Wayne County ( 1812 ), Seneca Falls ( 1829 ), Tyre ( 1829 ), and Waterloo ( 1829 ).

It has also been suggested that the Ba ‘ al of Tyre, Melqart " king of the city " ( who was probably the Ba ‘ al whose worship was furthered by Ahab and his house ) was this supposed god Moloch and that Melqart / Moloch was also Milcom the god of the Ammonites and identical to other gods whose names contain mlk.

In 1111 Baldwin assisted Tancred in besieging Shaizar, and then also besieged Tyre, but was pushed back by a Muslim force under Toghtekin of Damascus.

This story also appears in the pages of William of Tyre, which indicates that even a few generations after the crusade, the descendants of the crusaders already believed Peter was its originator.

It also appears in the pages of Albert of Aix who wrote somewhere about 1130 ; and from Albert it was borrowed by William of Tyre.

The force was commanded by King Henry II of Jerusalem, the king of Cyprus, accompanied by his brother, Amalric, Lord of Tyre, and the heads of the military orders, with the ambassador of the Mongol leader Ghazan also in attendance.

Harry Barnett also appears in Goddard's only published short story, ' Toupee for a Bald Tyre '.

Not only Jerusalem was called this way, but also Babylon, Tyre and Tarshish were referred to as " daughter ".

According to William of Tyre, although Nur ad-Din was " a mighty persecutor of the Christian name and faith ," he was also " a just prince, valiant and wise, and according to the traditions of his race, a religious man.

ISBN 1-84014-263-4 ( Appendices also contain the accounts of Fulcher of Chartres, Albert of Aix, Matthew of Edessa, Orderic Vitalis, and William of Tyre.

: First published: version of the play published in quarto in 1609 as The Late and much admired Play Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre, with the true Relation of the whole History, adventures, and fortunes of the sayd Prince: As also, the no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, in the Birth and Life, of his Daughter Mariana

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.

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.

AbuKhalil was born in Tyre, Lebanon, and grew up in Beirut.

After the recapture of Tyre by the Crusaders, the Christian community grew and the city experienced an economic resurgence.

As William of Tyre put it, it was hoped that Manuel would be able " to relieve from his own abundance the distress under which our realm was suffering and to change our poverty into superabundance ".

Much of the population, swollen with refugees fleeing Saladin's conquest of the surrounding territory, was allowed to flee to Tyre, Tripoli, or Egypt ( whence they were sent back to Europe ), but those who could not pay for their freedom were sold into slavery, and those who could were often robbed by Christians and Muslims alike on their way into exile.

The region of northern Canaan was subsequently merged into the empire of Alexander the Great, who notably conquered Tyre ( 332 BC ) by extending a still-extant causeway from the mainland in a seven-month effort.

He entered into an alliance with Hiram I, king of Tyre, who in many ways greatly assisted him in his numerous undertakings.

* Alexander of Macedonia occupies Damascus and, after a siege lasting seven months, destroys Tyre during which there is great carnage and the sale of the women and children into slavery.

When the Seleucid ruler captures the important eastern Mediterranean sea ports of Seleucia-in-Pieria, Tyre, and Ptolemais, Ptolemy IV's advisor, Sosibius, and the Ptolemaic court enter into delaying negotiations with the enemy, while the Ptolemaic army is reorganized and intensively drilled.

: When our Lord retired into the borderland of Tyre and Sidon ( Matt.

At this time Tyre and Sidon were consolidated into one kingdom.

* Black Brook – A stream flowing past Tyre village into Montezuma Marsh.

" As soon as the king had taken the pills ," says William of Tyre, " he was seized with a fever and dysentery which developed into consumption from which he was never able to obtain relief or help.

Baldwin IV was educated by the historian William of Tyre ( later Archbishop of Tyre and Chancellor of the kingdom ), who made a disturbing discovery about the prince: he and his friends were playing one day, attempting to injure each other by driving their fingernails into each other's arms, but Baldwin felt no pain.

Later that same day, UNIFIL observed the firing of rockets from Palestinian positions in the Tyre region into northern Israel, but none of the projectiles hit an Israeli settlement -- the gunners had been ordered to miss.

In 1177, Saladin led a force of some 26, 000 soldiers according to William of Tyre into southern Palestine after hearing that most of the Kingdom of Jerusalem's soldiers were besieging Harim north of Aleppo.

The Latin Patriarchate was divided into four archdioceses-their heads bearing the titles of Archbishop of Tyre, Archbishop of Caesarea, Archbishop of Nazareth, and Archbishop of Petra-and a number of suffragan dioceses.

Some popular modern histories have claimed that he was fleeing vengeance after committing a private murder: this is due to a failure to recognise Branas's name, garbled into " Lyvernas " in the Old French Continuation of William of Tyre ( sometimes known as The Chronicle of Ernoul ), and Roger of Howden's abridgement of his own Gesta regis Henrici Secundi ( formerly attributed to Benedict of Peterborough ).

* 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.

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.

She compensated Humphrey by restoring to him his title to Toron, Chastel Neuf and related estates, which had been taken into the royal domain on their marriage, before returning to Tyre with her new husband.

By the mid-thirteenth century, when the Old French Continuation of William of Tyre ( the so-called Chronicle of Ernoul ) was compiled, the story of the bride of Botrun had evolved into a fanciful legend in which Plivain's uncle put the young lady ( there renamed Lucie ) on the scales, and offered Raymond her weight in gold, to obtain the marriage.

It was rendered into Latin as " Longaspata " by William of Tyre in his Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum ( written in the early 1180s ), whence it has been taken up by historians.