Tyre, Lebanon
Tyre is a city in the south of Lebanon. About 120,000 people lived there in 2003. The Phoenicians originally built the city. It is known as Tyrus in Latin, and Tyros in Greek. Its name in Arabic and Turkish is Suur.
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Tyre, Lebanon Media
- TyreAlMinaCitySite RoundRainbow RomanDeckert11122020.jpg
A 22° halo over Al Mina site, 2019
- PalestineSunbird TyreSourLebanon RomanDeckert03122019.jpg
A Palestine sunbird on Tecoma capensis near Al Mina
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Sign marking Tyre according to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. Note the ruins of the Mamluk House (left) which has been rehabilitated since.
- TyreAlMinaCitySite MauriceChehabExcavationsRemnants-Rail-Wheelbarrow RomanDeckert23082019.jpg
Rusty relics from Chehab's excavations at Al Mina site
- TyreCitySite ArchaeologicalExcavations UniversityOfLyon RomanDeckert09102019.jpg
Archaeologists from the University of Lyon at the Al Mina/City site in 2019
- Tyre KhanRabu-ruins MainroomBalcony RomanDeckert21112019.jpg
The ruins of the main room at Khan Rabu in the Old Town of Tyre/Sour, Southern Lebanon. Khan Rabu (also spelled Rabou or Ribu) was built in 1810 during Ottoman rule as a Caravanserai in the Islamic quarter (Harat El Islem).
- John Martin - Destruction of Tyre - Google Art Project.jpg
The prophesied destruction of Tyre as painted by John Martin.
- TyreSour JafariyaSchool RomanDeckert11072019.jpg
The Jafariya School (2019)
- Islamic university building in Tyre.jpg
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- BellaCiao RivoliStreetCarnival TyreSourLebanon RomanDeckert07122019.webm
Video of the carnival during the TIRO INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL 2019
