Tyre’s list of former rulers and conquerers reads likes a Who’s-Who from Antiquity. From King Hiram (980 BC), who supplied Lebanese cedars to King Solomon for the building of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem; to the Phoenician Princess Elissa (also known as Dido), who left Tyre to found the famous city of Carthage (814 BC); to the Babyloninan King Nebuchadnezzar, who laid siege to the city for 13 years (500 BC); to Alexander the Great, who conquered Tyre by building a causeway to connect the island city to the mainland (332 BC) – these are only the BC period highlights. 
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