Tyre, Lebanon
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Tyre is a city in the South Governorate of Lebanon.
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Notable people
- List of Kings of Tyre
- Porphyry (3rd century) Phoenician philosopher
- Saint Frumentius Saint who brought Christianity to the Aksumite Kingdom in 4th Century, and helped make it the official religion.
- Europa, a maiden whom the Greek god Zeus supposedly abducted disguised as a white bull, was a princess of Tyre.
- Dido, who fled Tyre and founded Carthage
- Dorotheus of Tyre, Saint, bishop of Tyre (ca. 255 – 362), traditionally credited with the Acts of the Seventy Apostles.
- Marinus of Tyre, (ca. 70–130 AD), a Phoenician geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography.
- Cadmus, Phoenician prince who introduced the Phoenician alphabet to the Greeks and founded the Greek city of Thebes named Cadmeia in his honor.
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