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Tyre may refer to:

• The outer part of a wheel, see tire

Locations

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

Historical events

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

Fiction

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

Archbishops of Tyre

• 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

• 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

Other

• 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

See also

• Tyr (disambiguation)
• Tire (disambiguation)

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