23 Facts About Sidon

Sidon, known locally as Sayda or Saida (Arabic: ), is the third-largest city in Lebanon.

Sidon has a population of about 80, 000 within city limits, while its metropolitan area has more than a quarter-million inhabitants.

When Sidon fell under Roman domination, it continued to mint its own silver coins.

Sidon's ambitions were opposed by the British Empire, which backed the Ottomans.

Sidon capitulated in two days, and the British went on to Acre.

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The refugee camps constituted de facto neighborhoods of Sidon, but had a separate legal and political status which made them into a kind of enclaves.

The attack on Sidon is credited with leading to a truce between Hizbollah and Amal and increased cooperation between the two groups and the Lebanese Army.

Sidon was a small fishing town of 10, 000 inhabitants in 1900, but studies in 2000 showed a population of 65, 000 in the city, and around 200, 000 in the metropolitan area.

Politics of Sidon is similar to that of the traditional old cities of the Levant in the sense of being family-based.

Sidon politicians, including the Hariri family, failed for decades to resolve the Makab crisis—which has endangered residents health.

In 2004, Engineer Hamzi Moghrabi, a Sidon native, conceived the idea to establish a treatment plant for the city's decades-old chronic waste problem.

Sidon established the privately funded IBC Enviro and the treatment plant became operational in 2013.

Qamla beach in Sidon, a coast in close proximity to the Sea Castle, witnessed a large municipal cleanup in May 2011, as it was an easy target of rubbish being washed up by the Makab.

Sidon is the center of the Governorate of South Lebanon, and hosts the seat of the Governor of Southern Lebanon.

However, in the 2009 elections – and due to the reactivation of the 1960 electoral law – the city of Sidon was separated from its district to form a separate electoral district.

Overwhelming majority of Sidon's population belong to the Sunni sect of Islam, with few Shiites and Christians.

Sidon is the seat of the Greek Melkite Catholic Archbishop of Sidon and Deir el Qamar, and has housed a significant Catholic population throughout its history.

Sidon is home to numerous educational facilities ranging from public elementary schools to private universities.

Sidon contains 10 universities, 5 of which are private universities.

Sidon I is an archaeological site located to the east of the city, south of the road to Jezzine.

Sidon II is said to be "near the church" at approximately fifty meters above sea level.

Sidon III was found by E Passemard in the 1920s, who made a collection of material that is in the National Museum of Beirut marked "Camp de l'Aviation".

Archaeologists determined that Sidon was clearly the big power centre during MBA, controlling significant territory.