Sidon (Arabic: صيدا, صيدون, Ṣaydā; Syriac-Aramaic: ܨܝܕܘܢ; French: Saida;... (Sidon Sea Castle)
September 25, 2018 by marwan.g.nassar
Sidon (Arabic: صيدا, صيدون, Ṣaydā; Syriac-Aramaic: ܨܝܕܘܢ; French: Saida; Phoenician: 𐤑𐤃𐤍, Ṣīdūn; Biblical Hebrew: צִידוֹן, Ṣīḏōn; Greek: Σιδών), translated as 'fishery' or 'fishing-town', is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located in the South Governorate of Lebanon, on the Mediterranean coast, about 40 kilometres north of Tyre and 40 km south of the capital, Beirut. In the Book of Genesis, Sidon was the first-born son of Canaan, who was a son of Ham, thereby making Sidon a great grandson of Noah.
The City has been inhabited since very early in prehistory. was one of the most important Phoenician cities, and it may have been the oldest. From there and other ports a great Mediterranean commercial empire was founded. Homer praised the skill of its craftsmen in producing glass, purple dyes, and its women's skill at the art of embroidery. It was also from here that a colonizing party went to found the city of Tyre. Tyre also grew into a great city, and in subsequent years there was competition between the two, each claiming to be the metropolis ('Mother City') of Phoenicia. Glass manufacturing, Sidon's most important enterprise in the Phoenician era, was conducted on a vast scale, and the production of purple dye was almost as important. The small shell of the Murex trunculus was broken in order to extract the pigment that was so rare it became the mark of royalty.
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.📍Sidon Sea Castle, Saida, Southern Lebanon 🇱🇧 .
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