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	Sidon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sidon, Zidon or Saida, (Arabic صيدا Ṣaydā; Hebrew צִידוֹן, Standard Hebrew Ẓidon, Tiberian Hebrew Ṣîḏōn) is the third-largest city in Lebanon.
		It became the centre of the Lordship of Sidon, an important seigneury in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
		After Sidon came under Ottoman Turkish rule in the seventeenth century, it regained a great deal of its earlier commercial importance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sidon (610 words)

	Sidon - Wikipedia
		Dieser Artikel behandelt die libanesische Stadt Sidon, für den Ortsteil Saida der sächsischen Gemeinde Kreischa, siehe Saida (Kreischa).
		Nach einer phönizischen Inschrift zählt er offenbar zu den "Königen von Sidon" evtl.
		Sidon war berühmt für seine Handwerker, Künstler und Handelsleute (1.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sidon (352 words)

	Sidon
		Sidon's Phoenician period began in the 12th - 10th century B.C. and reached its height during the Persian Empire (550 - 330 B.C.).
		The entrance to Sidon from the north is on a wide divided highway lined with palm trees.
		Sidon is famous for a variety of local sweets which you can watch being made in the old souk or in shops on the main street.
	www.middleeast.com /sidon.htm (1837 words)

	Sidon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sidon had a good harbor to the north, enclosed by a line of small islets extending several hundred feet from the promontory to the north.
		Sidon was the mother of all the Phoenician cities, either directly, as Tyre, or indirectly, as Carthage.
		Sidon is mentioned in the Book of Genesis, in the ethnological tables where the natives of the promised land are enumerated.
	www.ancientroute.com /cities/sidon.htm (2171 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sidon
		Sidon, situated on the coast of Pamphylia, was a colony of Cumae in Æolia.
		Sidon is mentioned in I Machabees, xv, 23, among the cities and countries to which the Roman letter proclaiming their alliance with the Jews was sent.
		Sidon was the home of Eustachius of Antioch (see EUSTATHIUS), of the philosopher Troilus, the master of Socrates, himself a teacher; of the celebrated fifth-century ecclesiastical writer Philip; of the famous lawyer Tribonianus (sixth century).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13777a.htm (475 words)

	Sidon
		Sidon became early distinguished for its manufactures and the skill of its artisans, such as beautiful metal-work in silver and bronze and textile fabrics embroidered and dyed with the famous purple dye which became known as Tyrian, but which was earlier produced at Sidon.
		Sidon had a monarchical form of government, as did all the Phoenician towns, but it also held a sort of hegemony over those to the South as far as the limit of Phoenicia.
		Sidon, with the other towns, eventually became independent of Egypt, and she retained the hegemony of the southern towns and perhaps added Dor, claimed by the Philistines, to her dominion.
	holycall.com /biblemaps/sidon.htm (1654 words)

	Sidon
		Sidon is the oldest city of the Phoenicians, and the...
		Sidon, on the coast 48 km south of Beirut, is one of the famous names in...
		Sidon is of immense antiquity, but few remains of the ancient city have survived the ravages of time and man. There is evidence that Sidon was inhabited as long ago as 4000 B.C., and perhaps even earlier, in Neolithic times.
	www.vacationguy.com /search.php?keywords=Sidon (385 words)

	Map of Ancient Israel - Sidon
		Sidon also known as Zidon or "Great Zidon" was the mother city, and said to have been built by Noah's great-grandson, therefore the name, Zidon.
		Sidon was the first Phoenician city to send ships in to the open seas, and at that time they navigated using the stars.
		Artaxerxes III of Persia annihilated Sidon in 352 B.C. Under Alexander the Great they enjoyed peace for a little while, but when he died the Ptolemies and Seleucids became a thorn in their side and finally in 64 B.C. Sidon was taken by Pompey.
	www.bible-history.com /geography/ancient-israel/sidon.html (398 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sidon
		Sidon is the oldest city of the Phoenicians, and the metropolis of the great colonial empire established by this people (Strabo, XVI, i, 22).
		Sidon, called the mother of the Phoenician cities, for Tyre, Carthage, Hippo were settled by emigrants from there, was noted for its bronze, its commerce, navigation, knowledge of mathematics and astronomy; it is mentioned with great praise by Homer (Iliad, XXIII, 743; Odyssey, XV, 425; XIII, 285).
		Sidon was taken several times by the Assyrian kings, to whom its rulers paid tribute; finally in 676, when its name was changed to Ir-Asaraddon, and its inhabitants were killed, or carried captive into Assyria.
	newadvent.org /cathen/13776a.htm (1141 words)

	Lebanon - Sidon: MiddleEastUK.com Destinations
		Sidon, on the coast 48km south of Beirut, is one of the famous names in ancient history.
		The challenge for any visitor to Sidon is to recapture a sense of this city's ancient glory from the intriguing elements that still survive.
		Sidon is also famous for a variety of local sweets which you can watch being made in the old souk (market) or in shops on the main street.
	www.middleeastuk.com /destinations/lebanon/sidon.htm (645 words)

	Sidon
		Sidon today is the third most important Lebanese city, and the seat of government for the district of Southern Lebanon.
		The old section of Sidon as seen today is believed to have developed at the end of the Crusader period, ancient Sidon having been larger in area and probably extending north to where the Temple of Echmoun stands.
		Sidon is famous for a variety of local sweets that can be seen being prepared in the shops of the old souk as well as in the newer parts of the shopping area.
	www.daleelaustralia.com /travel/lebanon_sidon.php (2127 words)

	Sayda
		While being in competition with its neighbour Tyre 35 km southwest, Sidon was during long periods, the richest and most important of the Phoenician cities.
		Sidon was mentioned several times, in Genesis 10:15 and 19, and in the Gospel of Mark 7:24-30.
		Sidon becomes an important city in the Persian Empire, providing it with the ships and seamen it needed to fight the Egyptians and Greeks.
	www.lexicorient.com /e.o/sayda.htm (440 words)

	Saida (Sidon)
		Sidon is proudly considered the capital of the south.
		Sidon is one of the famous names in ancient history.
		Sidon's Phoenician Period began in the 12th-10th century B.C. and reached its height during the Persian Empire (550-330 B.C).
	ikamalebanon.com /national_heritage/south_nh/sth_cities_nh/saida.htm (926 words)

	Sidon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sidon''', '''Zidon''' or '''Saida''', (Arabic languageArabic '''صيدا''' '''Ṣaydā'''; Standard Hebrew '''צִידוֹן''' '''Ẓidon''', Tiberian Hebrew '''צִידֹן''' '''Ṣîḏōn) is the third-largest city in Lebanon.
		It became the centre of the Vassals of the Kingdom of JerusalemLordship of Sidon, an important seigneury in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
		Sidon: Lebanon's Jama'a Islameyya has asked its supporters to boycott the forthcoming parliamentary elections because "they are fixed by the American and French governments".
	www.infothis.com /find/Sidon (826 words)

	Sidon in History
		The Persians maintained a royal park in Sidon and it was then that the Temple of Echmoun was built and became an important place of pilgrimage.
		Sidon was also famous in ancient times for its gardens and its twin-basin harbor.
		In the 15th Century, Sidon was one of the ports of Damascus.
	almashriq.hiof.no /lebanon/900/910/919/saida1/history.html (692 words)

	Zeno_of_Sidon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Zeno of Sidon was born in the city of Sidon on the Mediterranean coast of what today is Lebanon.
		Sidon was one of the oldest Phoenician cities and, from its founding in the 3
		Zeno of Sidon was a student of Apollodorus and he studied, and later taught, in the Garden in Athens.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Zeno_of_Sidon.html (1027 words)

	Sidon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sidon, sometimes spelt Zidon, and known to its inhabitants as Saida, is thethird-largest city in Lebanon.
		It became the centre of the Lordship of Sidon, an importantseigneury in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
		, and that his mother was a priestessof ‘Ashtart, "the goddess of the Sidonians." In this inscription the gods Eshmun and Ba‘al Sidon 'Lord of Sidon' (whomay or may not be the same) are mentioned as chief gods of the Sidonians.
	www.therfcc.org /sidon-146934.html (434 words)

	Sidon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It became the centre of the of Sidon an important seigneury in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
		From Sidon at which the ship in after leaving Caesarea Paul finally sailed for Rome (Acts 27:3 4).
		Kirschen aus Sidon: Der Nahostkonflikt in der Darstellung eines Augenzeugen
	www.freeglossary.com /Zidon (419 words)

	SIDON, Lebanon. by Www.Lebanon.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Under the successors of Alexander, Sidon, the “holy city” of Phoenicia, enjoyed relative freedom and organized games and competitions in which the greatest athletics of the region participated.
		Sidon surrendered to Saladin in 1187, but it was re-occupied for a hundred years when the Crusader Templars recaptured it briefly.
		century, Sidon was one of the ports of Damascus and it flourished once more during the 17th century when it was rebuilt by Fakhreddine II, then ruler of Lebanon.
	www.lebmania.com /photos/sidon/welcome.htm (1731 words)

	History of the Phoenician Canaanites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Later Sidon revolted against the Assyrian ruler Esarhaddon (681-669 B C.) who in 676 B.C. sacked and destroyed it and in its place built a governor's residence, called Kar-Esarhaddon, for a new Assyrian province.
		Sidon reemerged as the dominant city of Phoenicia in the Persian period (539-333 B.C.) and led a Phoenician contingent in the Persian wars of the early fifth century B.C., helping bridge the Hellespont and fighting at Salamis.
		Sidon was dealt a severe blow in 351 when Artaxerxes took the city.
	phoenicia.org /history.html (11519 words)

	PlanetMath: Sidon set (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A set of natural numbers is called a Sidon set if all pairwise sums of its elements are distinct.
		For an excellent survey of Sidon sets see [5].
		This is version 9 of Sidon set, born on 2003-10-11, modified 2004-12-07.
	www.planetmath.org /encyclopedia/SidonSequence.html (151 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sidon (Ancient History, Middle East) - Encyclopedia
		It was always an important center for trade, particularly in a later period when it was known for its purple dyes and for glassware (glass blowing is said to have begun at Sidon).
		Sidon has been excavated, and the sarcophagus of Eshmunzar that was found preserves an inscription of 22 lines mentioning various deities such as Baal and Ashtoreth.
		Although eclipsed by its own colony, Tyre, Sidon continued to be a port of prominence under the Persians, in the Hellenistic world, and in the later Roman Empire.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Sidon.html (228 words)

	Sidon - Walking in Their Sandals - location profile
		Sidon’s identity was often linked with Tyre, another Phoenician seaport, twenty-five miles to the south.
		Together with Sidon and Tyre, the coastal cities of Byblos and Aradus farther to the north formed the four major seaports of the Phoenicians.
		It is possible that Sidon gave his name to the city because of the territory of Canaan, Sidon's father, which extended from the city of Sidon to Gaza in the south (Gen 10:15,19).
	www.ancientsandals.com /overviews/sidon.htm (618 words)

	HMS Sidon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Sidon was a first-class paddle frigate designed by Sir Charles Napier.
		The second Sidon was launched in September 1944, one of the third group of S-class submarines built by Cammell Laird and Co Limited, Birkenhead.
		She sank in Portland harbour in 1951 as a result of an accidental torpedo explosion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Sidon (144 words)

	Sidon, Lebanon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sidon; ancient Sidouna, one of the famous names in ancient history, was an open city with many cultural influences, including the Egyptian Pharaohs and the Greeks.
		During the Persian period, Aegean sculptors contributed to the nearby temple of Eshmoun; the city's god, which was associated with the Aesculapius, the Greek god of healing.
		The Crusader period (1110-1291 AD) brought Sidon new prestige, as second of four baronies of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
	www.atlastours.net /lebanon/sidon.html (155 words)

	Sidon on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was one of the oldest Phoenician cities and is mentioned in the Tell el Amarna letters c.1400 BC After the 2d millennium BC, all Phoenicians were called Sidonians.
		Sidon was always an important center for trade, particularly in a later period when it was known for its purple dyes and for glassware (glass blowing is said to have begun at Sidon).
		Mounir Al- Makdah, leader of Al-Fatha in Lebanon is photographed at the Ein Al-Hilwe refugee camp in Sidon, Lebanon, Tuesday, February 4, 2003.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Sidon.asp (731 words)

	Genesis 10:19 The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon
		Genesis 10:19 The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon
		And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, unto Lasha.
		And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
	www.bible.cc /genesis/10-19.htm (259 words)

	Israeli Mercenaries Bombard Downtown Sidon - Kill Six Civilians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The shelling of Sidon was conducted by Israeli-financed mercenaries from Jezzine, a region that lies north of the zone that the Israeli army and its mercenary allies illegally occupy in southern Lebanon.
		A resident of Sidon, Lebanon helps his elderly mother flee an artillery bombardment by Israeli mercenaries that fell on the downtown section of the port city on Aug. 18, 1997.
		Scenes of the carnage in Sidon broadcast on television were certain to remind Lebanese of Israel's bombardment in April 1996 of a U.N. camp in the village of Qana that killed an estimated 100 civilians.
	www.hoffman-info.com /palestine17.html (451 words)

	Bible Study - Sidon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sidon, or Zidon, is an ancient city located on the coast of the The Mediterranean Sea, about half way between Beirut and Tyre.
		Sidon became a Phoenician city, along with Tyre, with which it was associated, and they became famous for their industry and commerce.
		Sidon is mentioned by the prophets Isaiah (e.g.
	www.execulink.com /~wblank/20010416.htm (334 words)

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