The History of Tyre / Wallace B. Fleming.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleming, Wallace B., author.

Series:

Columbia University Oriental Studies

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1915]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Examines the history of the Phoenician city of Tyre whose residents did not seek political power but rather commercial power. Looks at Tyre from the age of Hiram to their resistance to Assyrian encroachment, to Tyre under the Greeks, the Romans, and during the Crusades.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Note

Preface

Table of Contents

I. Tyre to the Age of Hiram

II. Tyre in the Age of Hiram

III. From the Age of Hiram to the Encroachment of Assyria

IV. Tyre's Resistance to Assyrian Encroachment

V. Tyre's Resistance to Babylon

VI. Tyre under the Persians

VII Tyre under the Greeks

VIII. Tyre under the Seleucidae

IX. Tyre under the Romans and Moslems

X. The Period of the Crusades

XI. From the Crusades to the Present Day

XII. Colonies, Commerce and Industries

XIII Religion of the Tyrians

XIV. Coins of Tyre

Index

Vita

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89444-9

OCLC:

1100433833