The beginnings of Tyre of Lebanon Phoenician, Queen of the Sea on a small island. The richness of who shot to fame have been collected from the colonies that spread across the Mediterranean, while the industry claimed the fame of the industry and purple transparent glass. Was the kiss ambitions senior heroes like Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian and Macedonian Alexander the Great, known as Thi centuries.

The date of the founding of Tyre of Lebanon to the beginnings of the third millennium BC. M. At that stage the Tyre is composed of the village was held double some of them on the beach, while the other part was held on a group of rocky islands scattered across from him. The golden age Tyre of Lebanon was not to inform him within the first millennium BC, at the beginning of that period at about the tenth century BC. M the king Hiram completion of a number of construction projects, bringing the islands together and to bridge part of the sea to the expansion of the port city.

Soon the city that went out of its narrow feet thanks to the traders and sailors who traveled the Mediterranean and reached the coasts of the Atlantic, and founded their colonies and commercial stations, including Carthage, which created them around the year 815 BC. M.

That was the era of era photos golden Lebanon flourished and enriched with products that colonies as by their domestic industries, which include glass manufacturing industry transparent and purple. However, the traders not only on paper in the deployment of their goods, but she takes to spread their culture, thanks to them in bringing the Phoenician alphabet to the Greeks, who kept them beautiful through the codification of Cadmus news images that son of a king of the alphabet Guenhm News Europe sister left her name on the continent known name.

And to that glorious period in the history of Images of Lebanon back funerary jars and various idols and jewelry were found in 1991 in the necropolis of the Phoenician city and deposited into the coffers of the Bank of Lebanon waiting for display in the corridors of the National Museum.

However, the prosperity of Images of Lebanon was soon brought them trouble. In the sixth century BC, the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar tried to insist the occupation of the city, but the walls that prevented him from invincible, sieged a period of three years. N is the sticks on the Babylonians did not stop crawling the Great, Uncle In 332 BC. M by Alexander the Great surrounded the city of Images of Lebanon for seven months due to not being subject to him like other Phoenician cities. As the Macedonian wish to occupy Egypt and was unable from the strategic point, to leave behind the city resistant, has one of the greatest ports working on behalf of the Persians, threatening the project by cutting off supplies of marine and land-based armies, it was deliberately destroyed the city ground and bridging the strait part is separated from the sea, to establish that his armies of the isthmus can be reached by land and occupation. The story goes that Alexander the rage in front of the resistance image in front of the losses incurred by the payment of Balmekdoni to the destruction of half of the city and killed the marine and the captivity of men, women and children.

After almost three centuries at the event underwent Photos Lebanon for the control of Romanian, like all other Phoenician cities. However, it was able in those days to keep some semblance of self-management, especially the right basic currency silver and bronze. The ceremony at the Roman era a number of important installations, water conduit outstanding and the Arc de Triomphe and the field of race horse carts, which is one of the largest fields of the Roman world.

I knew Sourbannan Christianity in the early, which appears in the texts of the New Testament. In the Byzantine era known Tyre of Lebanon is witnessing a period of prosperity, signs of premises and landfill and writings, has had the presidency between the roofs dioceses Phoenician cities.

In 634 Muslim armies entered the city without any resistance Remember, Fattabat march prosperity under the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs, Vizdant ways of water and filled with goods markets genres of carpets to gold jewelry and silver, and the active trade in sugar and manufactures glass. But the weakness of the Abbasid Caliphate and the arrival of the Fatimid rule in Egypt and effectively control the coastal cities has enabled the city to achieve something of autonomy under the rule of the judges is a family built Aqil.

It was like the walls of pictures vulnerable to delay its fall at the hands of the Crusaders, who were not able to occupy only in 1124, a decade after the fall of the last coastal city in their grip, and the city remained under the control of the Crusades until 1291 when seized by the Mamluks. In the early sixteenth century, entered Images of Lebanon like the rest of the region's cities in the orbit of Ottoman control, and stayed that way until she became part of the State of Greater Lebanon after World War One.


These are the pictures of the city of Lebanon Tyre past and present