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Tagstyre
2 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Submerged site
Iron Age Phoenician to Roman (c. 990 BCE – 500 CE) · Phoenician (Tyrian) / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman
Phoenician island city's drowned northern harbour basin – jetty and moles 2–3 m down north of Alexander's causeway.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Ottoman (c.2750 BCE–present; Phoenician peak 1100–332 BCE) · Phoenician / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman / Byzantine / Crusader
Phoenician island-city and legendary birthplace of Europa and Dido, Tyre dominated Mediterranean purple-dye trade.
