Lebanon
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South Governorate

Tyre

Tyre is the fourth-largest city in . It is particularly noteworthy for its stunning and clean beaches as well as some of the finest examples of Roman architecture in the world.
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  • Type: City with 135,000 residents
  • Description: city in the South Governorate of Lebanon, also an ancient Phoenician city and the legendary birthplace of Europa and Elissa (Dido)
  • Also known as: “Es Sur”, “Soûr”, and “Tyre, Lebanon”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tyre Hippodrome and Ruins of Tyre Necropolis.

Archaeological site
Photo: Ibrahimamirnaeem, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , located in the city of Tyre in southern , is an ancient sporting arena and UNESCO World Heritage site dating back to the second century AD.

Ruins
Photo: Matze187, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The al-Bass necropolis is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, part of the al-Bass archaeological site in the city of Tyre situated next to the el-Buss refugee camp.

Social service facility
Al-Buss camp – also transliterated Bass, Al-Bass, or El-Buss with the definite article spelled either al or el – is one of the twelve Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, located in the Southern Lebanese city of Tyre.

Tyre

Latitude
33.2721° or 33° 16′ 20″ north
Longitude
35.1964° or 35° 11′ 47″ east
Population
135,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
United Nations Location Code
LB SUR
Open location code
8G5Q75CW+RH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 803018184
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
267008
Wiki­data ID
Q82070
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tyre” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tirus”
  • Akkadian: “Ṣurru”
  • Amharic: “ቲሮስ”
  • Amharic: “ጢሮስ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Týros”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Τύρος”
  • Arabic: “Şūr”
  • Arabic: “الصور”
  • Arabic: “صور”
  • Armenian: “Տյուրոս”
  • Asturian: “Tiro”
  • Asturian: “Tiru”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sur”
  • Bashkir: “Сур”
  • Basque: “Tiro”
  • Belarusian: “Сур”
  • Belarusian: “Тыр”
  • Belarusian: “Цір”
  • Bengali: “তায়রে”
  • Bosnian: “Tir”
  • Breton: “Tir”
  • Bulgarian: “Тир”
  • Burmese: “တိုင်ယာမြို့ ၊ လက်ဘနွန်”
  • Catalan: “Sūr”
  • Catalan: “Tir”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Tiro”
  • Cebuano: “Tiro”
  • Cebuano: “Tsor”
  • Cebuano: “Tyre”
  • Cebuano: “Tyrus”
  • Central Kurdish: “سوور”
  • Chinese: “推罗”
  • Chinese: “提尔”
  • Chinese: “泰尔”
  • Chinese: “泰爾”
  • Chinese: “苏尔”
  • Chinese: “蒂尔”
  • Church Slavic: “Тѵръ”
  • Church Slavic: “Тѵ́ръ”
  • Church Slavic: “Тѷръ”
  • Croatian: “Tir”
  • Croatian: “Tyre”
  • Czech: “Súr”
  • Czech: “Týr”
  • Czech: “Tyros”
  • Czech: “Týros”
  • Czech: “Tyrus”
  • Danish: “Tyr”
  • Danish: “Tyrus”
  • Dutch: “Tyros”
  • Dutch: “Tyrus”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “صور”
  • Esperanto: “Tiro”
  • Estonian: “Sur”
  • Estonian: “Şūr”
  • Estonian: “Tüüros”
  • Extremaduran: “Tiru”
  • Finnish: “Sur”
  • Finnish: “Tyre”
  • Finnish: “Tyros”
  • Finnish: “Tyyro”
  • Finnish: “Tyyros”
  • French: “Royaume de Tyr”
  • French: “Sour”
  • French: “Tyr”
  • French: “Tyriote”
  • Galician: “Tiro”
  • Georgian: “ტვიროსი”
  • Georgian: “ტვიროსის”
  • Georgian: “ტირი”
  • German: “As-Sur”
  • German: “Tyre”
  • German: “Tyrer”
  • German: “Tyros”
  • German: “Tyrus”
  • Greek: “Τύρος”
  • Gujarati: “ટાયર”
  • Hausa: “Tyre”
  • Hebrew: “Ṣōr”
  • Hebrew: “אם צידונים”
  • Hebrew: “בתולת בת צידון”
  • Hebrew: “היושבת על מבואות ים”
  • Hebrew: “צור המעטירה”
  • Hebrew: “צור”
  • Hebrew: “‏צוֹר‎”
  • Hebrew: “צר המעטירה”
  • Hebrew: “צר”
  • Hebrew: “רוכלת העמים”
  • Hindi: “टायर, लेबनान”
  • Hindi: “टायर”
  • Hindi: “सोर”
  • Hungarian: “Türosz”
  • Icelandic: “Týros”
  • Indonesian: “Tirus”
  • Indonesian: “Tyre”
  • Irish: “An Tuír”
  • Italian: “Tiro”
  • Japanese: “チルス”
  • Japanese: “ツロ”
  • Japanese: “ティルス”
  • Japanese: “テュロス”
  • Kalaallisut: “Tyre”
  • Kannada: “ಟೈರ್”
  • Kashubian: “Tir”
  • Korean: “튀레”
  • Korean: “튀로스”
  • Korean: “티레”
  • Korean: “티로스 섬”
  • Korean: “티로스”
  • Korean: “티루스”
  • Korean: “티르”
  • Kurdish: “Sûr”
  • Kurdish: “Teyra”
  • Kurdish: “Tîr”
  • Kurdish: “Tîros”
  • Latin: “Tyros”
  • Latin: “Tyrus”
  • Latvian: “Sūr”
  • Latvian: “Sūra”
  • Latvian: “Tira”
  • Latvian: “Tīra”
  • Latvian: “Tyros”
  • Latvian: “Tyrus”
  • Latvian: “Tzor”
  • Lithuanian: “Tyras”
  • Macedonian: “Тир”
  • Malagasy: “Tirosy”
  • Malagasy: “Tirôsy”
  • Malay: “Sur, Lubnan”
  • Malay: “Tyre”
  • Malayalam: “ടൈർ”
  • Maltese: “Tyre”
  • Marathi: “टायर”
  • Mazanderani: “صور”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Chŭi-lò̤”
  • Minangkabau: “Tirus”
  • Nepali: “टायर, लेबनान”
  • Nepali: “टायर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tyr”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tyros”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tyrus”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tyr i Libanon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tyr”
  • Norwegian: “Tyr”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tir”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܨܘܪ”
  • Ossetian: “Сур (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Сур”
  • Pampanga: “Tyre, Lebanon”
  • Pampanga: “Tyre”
  • Persian: “شهر صور”
  • Persian: “صور”
  • Phoenician: “Ṣur”
  • Polish: “Sur”
  • Polish: “Tyr”
  • Polish: “Tyros”
  • Portuguese: “Tiro”
  • Portuguese: “Tyre”
  • Portuguese: “Tyrus”
  • Portuguese: “Tzor”
  • Romanian: “Tir, Liban”
  • Romanian: “Tir”
  • Romanian: “Tyr”
  • Russian: “Сур (город)”
  • Russian: “Сур”
  • Russian: “Тир”
  • Russian: “Цор”
  • Scots: “Tyre, Lebanon”
  • Scots: “Tyre”
  • Serbian: “Тир”
  • Serbian: “صور”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tir”
  • Sicilian: “Tiru”
  • Silesian: “Tyr”
  • Sinhala: “ටයිරේ”
  • Slovak: “Súr”
  • Slovak: “Tyros”
  • Slovenian: “As Sur”
  • Slovenian: “As-Sur”
  • Slovenian: “Sour”
  • Slovenian: “Sur”
  • Slovenian: “Tir, Libanon”
  • Slovenian: “Tir”
  • Slovenian: “Tyre”
  • South Azerbaijani: “صور”
  • Spanish: “Sour”
  • Spanish: “Sur”
  • Spanish: “Tiro”
  • Swahili: “Tiro”
  • Swedish: “Al-Sur”
  • Swedish: “Al-Sūr”
  • Swedish: “Sōr”
  • Swedish: “Sur”
  • Swedish: “Surru”
  • Swedish: “Tyre”
  • Swedish: “Tyros”
  • Swedish: “Týros”
  • Swedish: “Tyrus”
  • Tagalog: “Tiro, Lebanon”
  • Tagalog: “Tiro”
  • Tajik: “Сур”
  • Tamil: “தயர் நகரம், லெபனான்”
  • Tamil: “தயர்”
  • Tatar: “Сур шәһәре”
  • Telugu: “టైర్”
  • Thai: “Tyre”
  • Thai: “ไทร์”
  • Turkish: “Sur”
  • Uighur: “سۇر”
  • Ukrainian: “Сур”
  • Ukrainian: “Тір”
  • Urdu: “صور”
  • Uzbek: “Sur”
  • Venetian: “Tiro”
  • Vietnamese: “Tyre”
  • Vietnamese: “Týros”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tiro, Lebanon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tiro”
  • Welsh: “Tyre”
  • Welsh: “Tyros”
  • Welsh: “Tyrus”
  • Western Armenian: “Սուր”
  • Wu Chinese: “苏尔”
  • Yiddish: “צור”
  • Yue Chinese: “泰爾”

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