South Lebanon
South Governorate
Saida

Sidon

Sidon is a city in . The people are largely Sunni Muslims. The main attraction of Sidon is its Sea Castle, built by the Crusaders in the 13th century.
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  • Type: City with 164,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of South Governorate, Lebanon
  • Also known as: “Zidon”
  • Historically known as: “Saida”

Places of Interest

Highlights include The Sidon Sea Castle and Sidon Land Castle.

Castle
Photo: Heretiq, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Sidon's Sea Castle was built by the crusaders in the thirteenth century as a fortress of the . It is one of the most prominent historical sites in the port city of Sidon, .

Castle
Photo: BlingBling10, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Castle of Saint Louis, also known as Qalaat al Muizz or the Land Castle, is a ruined castle in Sidon, . It was built in 1254 by French crusaders on the site of an earlier Fatimid fortress, and was altered a number of times until the 17th century.

Museum
Photo: O.Mustafin, Public domain.
, also Qasr Debbane, Dar Ali Agha al-Hammud, and Dar Debbané, is an Arab-Ottoman-style grand mansion in Sidon, . The palace was built as a private residence in 1721 by Ali Agha al-Hammud, a Sidonian notable descending from a long line of builders.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bramiyeh and Hlaliyeh Saida.

Village
Al-Bramiyah, also spelled Bramieh, is a municipality in the of the in . It is located 35 kilometres from .

Village
Al-Helaliyah, also spelled Hilalieh, is a municipality of Sidon in . It is located 43 kilometres from .

Village
Photo: Philbous, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in located 5 km East of Sidon and 45 km south of the capital and it overlooks the Mediterranean Sea.

Sidon

Latitude
33.5618° or 33° 33′ 43″ north
Longitude
35.378° or 35° 22′ 41″ east
Population
164,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
QSQ
United Nations Location Codes
LB SAY and LB SDN
Open location code
8G5QH96H+P6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4799206602
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
268064
Wiki­data ID
Q163490
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Sidon” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sidon”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σιδών”
  • Arabic: “صيدا”
  • Arabic: “صيداء”
  • Arabic: “صيدون”
  • Armenian: “Սայդա”
  • Asturian: “Sidon”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sayda”
  • Basque: “Saida”
  • Basque: “Sidon”
  • Belarusian: “Сайда”
  • Belarusian: “Сідон”
  • Belarusian: “Сыдон”
  • Bengali: “সিডন”
  • Bengali: “সৈদা”
  • Bulgarian: “Сайда”
  • Bulgarian: “Сидон”
  • Catalan: “Sidó”
  • Catalan: “Sidonians”
  • Cebuano: “Sidon”
  • Chinese: “賽達”
  • Chinese: “赛达”
  • Church Slavic: “Сидонъ”
  • Church Slavic: “Сїдѡнъ”
  • Croatian: “Sidon”
  • Czech: “Saida”
  • Czech: “Saída”
  • Czech: “Saïda”
  • Czech: “Sajdá”
  • Czech: “Sidon”
  • Czech: “Sidón”
  • Danish: “Saida”
  • Dutch: “Sidon”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “صيدا”
  • Esperanto: “Cidono”
  • Esperanto: “Sidono”
  • Estonian: “Şaydā”
  • Estonian: “Sidon”
  • Estonian: “Siidon”
  • Finnish: “Sidon”
  • French: “Sagette”
  • French: “Saïda”
  • French: “Saidoon”
  • French: “Seide”
  • French: “Seyde”
  • French: “Sidon”
  • French: “صيدا”
  • Galician: “Sidón”
  • Georgian: “სიდონი”
  • German: “Sidon”
  • German: “Sidonier”
  • Greek: “Σιδώνα”
  • Hebrew: “אם כמב, אפא, כת, צר”
  • Hebrew: “צדן”
  • Hebrew: “צידון”
  • Hindi: “सिदोन”
  • Hungarian: “Szidón”
  • Icelandic: “Sídon”
  • Indonesian: “Sidon”
  • Irish: “Siodón”
  • Italian: “Saida”
  • Italian: “Sidone”
  • Japanese: “サイダ”
  • Japanese: “シドン”
  • Kabyle: “Ṣayda”
  • Kalaallisut: “Sidon”
  • Kashubian: “Sydón”
  • Korean: “사이다”
  • Korean: “시돈”
  • Kurdish: “Seyda”
  • Kurdish: “Sîdon”
  • Latin: “Sidon”
  • Latvian: “Saida”
  • Latvian: “Sidona”
  • Lithuanian: “Saida”
  • Lithuanian: “Sidonas”
  • Lombard: “Sidon”
  • Lombard: “Sidone”
  • Lombard: “Sidun”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sidon”
  • Macedonian: “Сидон”
  • Malagasy: “Sidôna”
  • Malay: “Sidon”
  • Mazanderani: “صیدا”
  • Mingrelian: “სიდონი”
  • Moksha: “Сайда”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Saida”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sayda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sidon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sidon”
  • Norwegian: “Sayda”
  • Norwegian: “Sidon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sidon”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܨܝܕܢ”
  • Ossetian: “Сайдæ”
  • Ossetian: “Сидон”
  • Pampanga: “Sidon”
  • Persian: “صیدا”
  • Polish: “Sydon”
  • Portuguese: “Sidom”
  • Portuguese: “Sídon”
  • Portuguese: “Tzidon”
  • Romanian: “Sidon”
  • Russian: “Сайда”
  • Russian: “Сидон”
  • Scots: “Sidon”
  • Serbian: “Sidon”
  • Serbian: “Сидон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sidon”
  • Slovenian: “Saida”
  • Slovenian: “Sajda”
  • Slovenian: “Sidon”
  • Somali: “Sayda”
  • Spanish: “Saida”
  • Spanish: “Sidon”
  • Spanish: “Sidón”
  • Swahili: “Sidoni”
  • Swedish: “Sagette”
  • Swedish: “Saida”
  • Swedish: “Saïda”
  • Swedish: “Saidoon”
  • Swedish: “Sasyda”
  • Swedish: “Saṣydā”
  • Swedish: “Sayda”
  • Swedish: “Ṣaydā”
  • Swedish: “Sidon”
  • Swedish: “Siduna”
  • Swedish: “Zidon”
  • Swedish: “Ẓidon”
  • Tajik: “Сайдо”
  • Tamil: “சிதோன்”
  • Tamil: “சைதா”
  • Tatar: “Сайда каласы”
  • Thai: “Sidon”
  • Thai: “ซาอีดา”
  • Thai: “ไซดอน”
  • Thai: “ไซดา”
  • Turkish: “Sayda”
  • Turkish: “Sidon”
  • Uighur: “سەيدا”
  • Ukrainian: “Сайда”
  • Ukrainian: “Сидон”
  • Ukrainian: “Сідон”
  • Urdu: “صیدا”
  • Uzbek: “Sayda”
  • Uzbek: “Saydo”
  • Venetian: “Sidone”
  • Veps: “Sidon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sidon”
  • Welsh: “Sidon”
  • Western Armenian: “Սայտա”
  • Wu Chinese: “赛达（黎巴嫩）”
  • Wu Chinese: “赛达”
  • Yiddish: “צידון”

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