The hostility to Agnes, it must be admitted, may be exaggerated by the chronicler William of Tyre, whom she prevented from becoming Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem decades later, as well as from William's continuators like Ernoul, who hints at a slight on her moral character: " car telle n ' est que roine doie iestre di si haute cite comme de Jherusalem " (" there should not be such a queen for so holy a city as Jerusalem ").

Once Amalric gave up on this point he was able to marry Maria in Tyre on August 29, 1167.

# 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.

The chronicler William of Tyre reports on the renovation of the Church in the mid-12th century.

William of Tyre placed the blame for this disaster firmly on the baggage and the presence of non-combatants.

At first, he occupied himself with works on Biblical criticism under the influence of Pamphilus and probably of Dorotheus of Tyre of the School of Antioch.

The addresses and sermons of Eusebius are mostly lost, but some have been preserved, e. g., a sermon on the consecration of the church in Tyre and an address on the thirtieth anniversary of the reign of Constantine ( 336 ).

In Ezekiel 28: 12-19 the prophet Ezekiel ( the " son of man ") sets down God's word against the king of Tyre: the king was the " seal of perfection ", adorned with precious stones from the day of his creation, placed by God in the garden of Eden on the holy mountain as a guardian cherub.

When Patriarch Amalric died on 6 October 1180, the two most obvious choices for his successor were William of Tyre and Heraclius of Caesarea.

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.

Hugh III's authority on the mainland began to break down ; he was an unpopular king, and Beirut, the only territory left outside of Acre and Tyre, started to act independently.

Hugh III attempted to re-assert his authority on the mainland by landing at Beirut in 1283, but this was ineffective and he died in Tyre in 1284.

He relied somewhat on the work of an earlier geographer, Marinos of Tyre, and on gazetteers of the Roman and ancient Persian Empire, but most of his sources beyond the perimeter of the Empire were unreliable.

According to the later thirteenth century Old French Continuation of William of Tyre, Raynald captured Saladin's sister in a raid on a caravan, although this claim is not attested in contemporary sources, Muslim or Frankish, instead stating that Raynald had attacked a preceding caravan, and Saladin set guards to ensure the safety of his sister and her son, who came to no harm.

According to the Bible, during Solomon's reign Israel enjoyed great commercial prosperity, with extensive traffic being carried on by land with Tyre, Egypt, and Arabia, and by sea with Tarshish, Ophir, and South India.

It is located in the South Governorate of Lebanon, on the Mediterranean coast, about 40 km ( 25 mi ) north of Tyre and 40 km ( 25 mi ) south of the capital Beirut.

* Phoenicians settle on Syrian coast, with centers at Tyre and Sidon

William of Tyre, writing on Melisende's 30-year reign, wrote that " she was a very wise woman, fully experienced in almost all affairs of state business, who completely triumphed over the handicap of her sex so she could take charge of important affairs ...", and " striving to emulate the glory of the best princes, Melisende ruled the kingdom with such ability that she was rightly considered to have equalled her predecessors in that regard.

Raymond named William chancellor of Jerusalem, as well as archdeacon of Nazareth, and on 6 June 1175, William was elected archbishop of Tyre to replace Frederick de la Roche, who had died in October 1174.

The treaty reduced the Latin Kingdom to a strip along the coast from Tyre to Jaffa.

* Le Page Renouf thought that " Tarshish " means a coast, and, as the word occurs frequently in connection with Tyre, the Phoenician coast is to be understood.

The Crusader states had been reduced to three cities along the sea coast, Tyre, Tripoli, Antioch.

The partly conserved text of a treaty with Tyre mentions the kings of Judah, Edom, Moab, Gaza, Ashkelon, Ekron, Byblos, Arvad, Samsi-muruna, Ammon, Ashdod, ten kings from the coast of the sea, and ten kings from the middle of the sea ( usually identified with Cyprus ), as Assyrian allies.

After the siege of Tyre ( 332 BC ), Alexander entrusted his fleet to Hephaestion, who had orders to skirt the coast and head for Gaza, their next objective, while Alexander himself led the army overland.

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

Tyre, the largest and most important city-state of Phoenicia, was located both on the Mediterranean coast as well as a nearby Island with two natural harbors on the landward side.

Another city, on the southeast coast of the island at Meninx, was a major producer of murex dye, cited by Pliny the Elder as second only to Tyre in this respect ; substantial amounts of coloured marble testify to its wealth.

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.

Starting on 8 June, the division advanced along two main axes: the 21st Brigade moving along the coast road from Tyre, crossing the Litani and moving towards Sidon, while the 25th Brigade advanced to the east from Metula towards Merdajayoun and Jezzine.

Tyre, the largest and most important city-state of Phoenicia, was located both on the Mediterranean coast as well as a nearby island with two natural harbors on the landward side.

The port of Tyre was one of the most protected strongholds of the Franks on the Syrian coast.

Alexander also attacked the city with siege engines by constructing a " mole ", a strip of soil from the coast opposite Tyre, to the island where the city was built.

He remained at Tyre for some time, to collect the friends of Perdiccas who had escaped from the army ; but then, instead of uniting his forces immediately with those of Alcetas, the brother of Perdiccas, he sailed to the coast of Caria, where he became involved in a contest with the Rhodians, by whom he was completely defeated in a sea-fight.

The marriage of Amalric I of Jerusalem and Maria Comnena at Tyre ( Lebanon ) | Tyre in 1167, as depicted in a MS of the Histoire d ' Outremer, painted in Paris c. 1295-1300.

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.

* Souri, grown in Lebanon near the town of Sur ( Tyre ) and widespread in the Levant, has a high oil yield and exceptionally aromatic flavour.

" ( The story was written during the Lebanon War of 1982, when Israeli planes bombed the modern Tyre and caused heavy civilian casualties ).

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.

The supposition that the polished blocks of stone for Solomon's temple were sent by Hiram from Lebanon or Tyre is not supported by any evidence ( comp.

Category: Tyre, Lebanon

Category: Tyre, Lebanon

* Tyrian, an adjective for Tyre, a city in the South Governorate of Lebanon

Agora of Tyre, Lebanon | Tyre

Pericles, the young Prince ( ruler ) of Tyre in Phoenicia ( Lebanon ), hears the riddle, and instantly understands its meaning: Antiochus is engaged in an incestuous relationship with his daughter.

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.

His father, Abdul Karim, was born in Bazouriyeh, a village in Jabal Amel ( South Republic of Lebanon ) located near Tyre.

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King Hiram I of Tyre sent engineers with Cedar wood which was abundant in Mount Lebanon, to build the Jewish Temple of Jerusalem.

* Tyre ( Lebanon ), an ancient Phoenician city ( Latin form )

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