Tyre
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Tyre may refer to:
- In British English, a tyre is the outer part of a wheel. In American English, the term tire is used instead.
Locations
- Tyre, Lebanon, the Phoenician city
- Tyre District, in the South Governorate of Lebanon
- Tyre, New York, a town in the United States
- Tyre, Michigan, a hamlet in the United States
Historical events
- Siege of Tyre, battle in 332 BC
- Synod of Tyre, various meetings of churchmen, between the 4th and 6th centuries
Fiction
- Apollonius of Tyre, medieval novella
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre, a play by William Shakespeare
Archbishops of Tyre
- Archbishop of Tyre, an influential post held throughout the Middle Ages. Particularly notable occupants included:
- Frederick, Archbishop of Tyre (d. 1174)
- William of Tyre (1130-1185), the Archbishop historian from the 1100s
- Joscius, Archbishop of Tyre (d. 1202)
Nobles
- List of kings of Tyre
- Pygmalion of Tyre, King of Tyre from 820-744 BC
- Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre (d. 1270)
- Amalric, Prince of Tyre (1272-1310), the Crusader nobleman
Other
- Marinos of Tyre, 1st century Lebanese geographer who may have originated the idea of the meridian
- Maximus of Tyre, Greek philosopher, 2nd century AD
- Dorotheus of Tyre, 3rd century saint
- Templar of Tyre, the Cyprus-based historian from the late 1200s and early 1300s
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