Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Tyre' has mentioned 'Island' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| It originally consisted of two distinct urban centres: Tyre itself, which was on an island just offshore, and the associated settlement of Ushu on the adjacent mainland, later called Palaetyrus, meaning "Old Tyre" in Ancient Greek. | WIKI |
| [8] The present city of Tyre covers a large part of the original island and has expanded onto and covers most of the causeway built by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE. | WIKI |
| The part of the original island not covered by the modern city of Tyre is mostly of an archaeological site showcasing remains of the city from ancient times. | WIKI |
| He landed on an island and consecrated two columns there, one to fire and the other to the wind, thus founding Tyre which was called Ushu in Egypt and Mesopotomia. | WIKI |
| "Originally the island was not attached to the sea floor, but rose and fell with the waves. | WIKI |
| It was predicted that the island would cease floating when the bird was sacrificed to the gods. | WIKI |
| The god Melqart taught people how to build boats, then sailed to the island. | WIKI |
| [33] And as the space on the island city was limited, the inhabitants constructed multi-storey buildings. | WIKI |
| More than a millienium later, Flavius Josephus recorded the legend that Hiram expanded the urban territory by projects connecting two islands or Reefs to form a single island on which he had temples erected for Melqart, Astarte, and Ba'al Shamem. | WIKI |
| [16] However, the Macedonian conqueror succeeded after seven months by demolishing the old city on the mainland and using its stones to construct a causeway to the island:[7][43][19][40][44] | WIKI |
| As Alexander's forces moved forward towards linking the fortified island with the mainland, the Tyrians evacuated their old men, women, and children to Carthage. | WIKI |
| Alexander's legacy still lives on today, since Tyre has remained a peninsula instead of an island ever since. | WIKI |
| [47] This was despite the fact that the city stayed reduced to a part of the old island after the devastations of the earthquakes in the 6th century. | WIKI |
| Originally called "Tyre Macula", it is some 140 kilometers in diameter (about the size of the island of Hawaii) and thought to be the site where an asteroid or comet impacted Europa's ice crust. | WIKI |
| From the 5th century B.C., when Herodotus of Halicarnassus visited Tyre, it was built for the most part on an island reportedly impregnable, considered one of the oldest metropolises of the world, and according to tradition founded in 2750 B.C. | UNESCO |
| The key attributes of the property xe2x80x93 the imposing ruins from the Roman city and the mediaeval construction of the Crusades on the former island, and on the mainland the necropolis, monumental way, aqueduct and hippodrome - reflect the former glory of Tyre. | UNESCO |