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Sidon

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Sidon (Hebrew: צידון, Tsı̂ydôn) or Zidon was the firstborn son of Canaan, the grandson of Noah (Genesis 10:15, 19). Sidon, according to Herodotus, was the first city founded by the Phoenicians. God prophesied of them: "O thou, oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon: Arise, pass over Chittim; there also shall thou have no rest" (Isa. 23:12).

Josephus says that Cyprus was called Kition by the Greeks. It's inhabitants were called Kitieis and Kittiaeans. The Phoenicians called it Kt or Kty. That is where many Sidonians are today, caught up in the continual bickering between the Greeks and the Turks, with "no rest". Others scattered to Mysia, Malta, and North Africa. The Akkadians rendered the Sidonians as Sidunu and the Armana tablets as Sa'idunu.