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Your continued donations keep Wikipedia runningSidonFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchCoordinates: 33°33?38?N, 35°23?53?EView of the new city the Sea Castle. Part of the Sea Castle in front.Sidon, Zidon or Saida, (Arabic ÕíÏÇ ?ayd?; Hebrew ???????, Standard Hebrew ?idon, Tiberian Hebrew ?î??n) is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located in the South Governorate of Lebanon, on the Mediterranean coast, about 40 km (25 mi) north of Tyre and 50 km (30 mi) south of the capital Beirut. Its name means a fishery.Contents1 History2 Sidon today3 The Biblical Sidon4 References5 External links[edit]HistoryIt was one of the most important Phoenician cities, and may have been the oldest. From here, and other ports, a great Mediterranean commercial empire was founded. Homer praised the skill of its craftsmen in producing glass and purple dyes. It was also from here that a colonising party went to found the city of Tyre.In 1855, the sarcophagus of King Eshmun’azar II was discovered. From a Phoenician inscription on its lid, it appears that he was a king of the Sidonians, probably in the 5th century BCE, and that his mother was a priestess of ‘Ashtart, the goddess of the Sidonians. In this inscription the gods Eshmun and Ba‘al Sidon Lord of Sidon (who may or may not be the same) are mentioned as chief gods of the Sidonians. ‘Ashtart is entitled ‘Ashtart-Shem-Ba‘al ‘Ashtart the name of the Lord, a title also found in an Ugaritic text.Sidon Sea CastleIn the years before Jesus Sidon had many conquerors: Philistines; Assyrians; Babylonians; Egyptians; Greeks and finally Romans. Herod the Great visited Sidon; both Jesus and Saint Paul are said to have visited it (see Biblical Sidon below). The city was eventually conquered by the Arabs and then the Ottoman Turks.On December 4, 1110 Sidon was sacked in the First Crusade. It then became the centre of the Lordship of Sidon, an important seigneury in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. During the Crusades it was sacked several times: it was finally destroyed by the Saracens in 1249. In 1260 it was again destroyed by the Mongols. The remains of the original walls are still visible.After Sidon came under Ottoman Turkish rule in the seventeenth century, it regained a great deal of its earlier commercial importance. After WWI it became part of the French Mandate of Lebanon. During the Second World War the city, together with the rest of Lebanon, was captured by British forces fighting against the Vichy French, and following the war it became a major city of independent Lebanon.Various incidents and riots at Sidon in 1975 constributed to the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War. Throughout the war, the city was dominated by Sunni militias acting in loose alliance with the Palestinians.During the First Lebanon War (1982), the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) landed north of Sidon and the city was subjected to a heavy aerial bombing, causing heavy casualties among the civilian population. There was prolonged
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