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Tyre
Welcome to Tyre
The storied town of Tyre, once renowned across the familiar world for its purple dye made of murex ocean snails (Tyrian purple), contains a terrific coast location and intensive Roman ruins. It's a standard vacation destination for Beirutis, with glorious accommodation selections and what square measure Lebanon's best, cleanest beaches; you would possibly even swim with turtles.
Tyre (called Ksour or Sour in Arabic), a predominantly Shiite town, is the power base of Hezbollah's Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and also home to the United Nations peacekeeping mission (UNIFIL). The town's foundations originate to roughly 2750 before Christ, when that it had been dominated by the Egyptians and so the renowned King Hiram, underneath whom it prospered. Later colonised variously by the Assyrians, Neo-Babylonians, Greeks, Seleucids, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Crusaders, Mamluks and Ottomans, the settlement began to languish from the 13th century onwards and, despite many attempts, never quite recovered its former glory.
