Remembering Tyre, Lebanon

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1933 LEBANON CEDAR TREE Ancient ship 80 Years Old Lebanese 5 Piastres Middle East Coin
1933 LEBANON CEDAR TREE Ancient ship 80 Years Old Lebanese 5 Piastres Middle East Coin
Lebanon Photos -- National Geographic
Roman Ruins, Tyre, Lebanon...loved this place!!! Right down the road from my Aunts.
The Crusaders' last stand: Pot of gold worth £300,000 found in fortress where it was buried by doomed force of Christian knights
Holy Lands after the First Crusade
The oldest cities in the world
2. Tyre, Lebanon When did the earliest inhabitants settle? 2,750 BC The legendary birthplace of Europa and Dido, Tyre was founded around 2,750 BC, according to Herodotus. It was conquered by Alexander the Great in 332 BC following a seven-month siege and became a Roman province in 64 BC. Today, tourism is a major industry: the city's Roman Hippodrome is a Unesco World Heritage Site. Bible: "Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes.”
Snow in Lebanon.. Just 1 hour away of the coast and you are at the beach. Dont you like?!
Lebanese NGO – Beirut – Towards a Better Lebanon
Ruins of Tyre (Sour ) الأثآر في صور Photo by Nina Sharabati
Evidence of the Phoenicians in Brazil is the famous inscription in the "Pedra da Gávea" (Gavea's Rock) in Rio de Janeiro which states: "Here Badezir, King of Tyre, Jetbaal's oldest son". http://phoenicia.org/brazil.html Read more: Phoenicia, Phoenicians in Brazil http://phoenicia.org/brazil.html#ixzz2Jm8GG81X
Lebanese NGO – Beirut – Towards a Better Lebanon
Good morning form #Tyre - Sour صباح الخير من #صور