Tyre may refer to:

• Tire, the outer part of a wheel. Tyre is the British spelling.

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• Tyre, Lebanon, the Phoenician city
• Tyre, New York, a town in the United States
• Tyre, Michigan, a hamlet in the United States

Historical events Tyre (Arabic , Phoenician , Hebrew Tzor, Tiberian Hebrew , Akkadian , Greek Týros) is a city in the South Governorate of Lebanon. ... Tyre is a town located in Seneca County, New York. ... Austin Township is a civil township in Sanilac County of the U.S. state of Michigan. ...

• Siege of Tyre, battle in 332 BC
• Synod of Tyre, various meetings of churchmen, between the 4th and 6th centuries

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• Apollonius of Tyre, medieval novella
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre, a play by William Shakespeare

Archbishops of Tyre Apollonius of Tyre is the subject of a popular medieval story, existing in numerous forms in many languages. ... Title page of the 1611 quarto edition of the play Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a play written (at least in part) by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected plays despite some questions over its authorship. ...

• 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 The Archbishop of Tyre was one of the major suffragans of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem during the Crusades and was established to serve the Catholic members of the diocese. ... Frederick de la Roche (d. ... William of Tyre (c. ... Joscius, also Josce or Josias (died 1202), was Archbishop of Tyre in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the late 12th century. ...

• 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

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• 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

Marinos of Tyre (Μαρίνος ο Τύριος) Ο Μαρίνος από την Τύρο (περί το 170 - 250 μ.Χ.) ήταν Έλληνας γεωγράφος και χαρτογράφος από την Τύρο. Θεωρείται ως ο θεμελιωτής της μαθηματικής γεωγραφίας, περιγράφοντας με μεγαλύτερη σαφήνεια από όλους τους παλαιότερους γεωγράφους τη βόρεια Ευρώπη, υποστηρίζοντας το μεσημβρινό των Μακάρων ως αφετηρία για τη μέτρηση των μηκών, προηγούμενος έτσι του Πτολεμαίου Κλαύδιου, συντάσσοντας γεωγραφικούς πίνακες. Ο Πτολεμαίος τον περιλαμβάνει στη Γεωγραφική του Υφήγηση, αναφέροντας τα Περί Μαρίνου γεωγραφικής υφηγήσεως, Διόρθωσις του πλάτους εγνωσμένης γης διαστάσεως από των φαινομένων και . ... Cassius Maximus Tyrius (Maximus of Tyre), a Greek rhetorician and philosopher who flourished in the time of the Antonines and Commodus (2nd century A.D). ... Saint Dorotheus, bishop of Tyre ( 255 – 362) is traditionally credited with an Acts of the Seventy Apostles, who were sent out according to the Gospel of Luke 10:1- . Dorotheus, a learned priest of Antioch, the teacher of the Church historian Eusebius of Caesarea, was appointed director without having to... The Templar of Tyre (French: Le Templier de Tyre) is the name of a medieval historian, and the document which he wrote in the 1300s. ...

See also

• Tyr (disambiguation)

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