Tyre

Tyre (, {{Hebrew Name|צוֹר}|Tzor}} meaning "a rock",, ) was a Phoenician port south of Sidon and north of Carmel. Nowadays is a city of Lebanon. In the fourteenth century BC Tyre was a city on an island, but during the siege of Alexander the Great a road was built connecting the island to the mainland forming a peninsula.

The Phoenicians of Tyre were engaged in trade establishing colonies throughout eastern Mediterranean and North Africa.