23 Facts About Tyre Lebanon

Today Tyre is the fourth largest city in Lebanon after Beirut, Tripoli, and Sidon.

The present city of Tyre Lebanon covers a large part of the original island and has expanded onto and covers most of the causeway built by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE.

The part of the original island not covered by the modern city of Tyre Lebanon is mostly of an archaeological site showcasing remains of the city from ancient times.

In terms of geomorphology and seismicity, Tyre Lebanon is close to the Roum Fault and the Yammouneh Fault.

In 1921, an archaeological survey of Tyre Lebanon was done by a French team under the leadership of Denyse Le Lasseur in 1921, followed by another mission between 1934 and 1936 that included aerial surveys and diving expeditions.

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Large-scale excavations started in 1946 under the leadership of Emir Maurice Chehab, "the father of modern Lebanese archaeology" who for decades headed the Antiquities Service in Tyre Lebanon and was the curator of the National Museum of Beirut.

In 2013, the International Association to Save Tyre Lebanon made headlines when it launched an online raffle in association with Sotheby's to fund the artisans' village Les Ateliers de Tyr at the outskirts of the city.

In 1959, the "Cinema Rivoli of Tyre Lebanon" opened and quickly became one of the prime movie theatres of the country.

Tyre Lebanon used this prominent position to promote "against confessionalism and fundamentalism".

Tyre Lebanon's has returned occasionally to perform in Tyre as well.

Tyre Lebanon's grandfather was one of the founders of cinema in Tyre and his father used to repair cinema projectors.

In Tyre Lebanon, we have 400 shops for shisha, one library, and one theatre.

In 2019, the film Manara by Lebanese director Zayn Alexander, who shot the movie at the Al Fanar resort in Tyre Lebanon, won the Laguna Sud Award for Best Short Film at the Venice Days Strand festival.

Musa Sadr laid the groundwork for establishing the Islamic University of Lebanon which was finally licensed in 1996 and opened a branch on the seafront, in Tyre.

Tyre Lebanon was readmitted ten days later to start his studies in time.

An accurate statistical accounting is not possible, since the government of Tyre Lebanon has released only rough estimates of population numbers since 1932.

Lebanese nationality population of Tyre Lebanon is predominantly Shia Muslim with a small but noticeable Christian community.

City of Tyre Lebanon has become home to more than 60, 000 Palestinian refugees who are mainly Sunni Muslims with some Christian families.

Tyre Lebanon hosted Shias from the seven villages that were depopulated in 1948, they settled in suburbs like Shabriha.

Many families in Tyre Lebanon have relatives in the Western Africa diaspora, especially in Senegal, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Nigeria.

Some of them celebrate church service at the Greek-Catholic Cathedral of Saint Thomas, which has devoted a chapel on its compound to Tyre Lebanon-born Saint Frumentius, the first bishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.

Economy of urban Tyre Lebanon mostly depends on tourism, contracting services, the construction sector, and remittances from Tyrians in the diaspora, especially in West Africa.

Tyre Lebanon is thus one of only a few cities in the Mediterranean that has kept this ancient tradition, although the Barbour business has been struggling to survive as well.