Siege of Tyre

When

Jan 332 BCE – Jul 332 BCE

Kind

Siege

Coordinates

33.27° N, 35.20° E

Description

siege of the largest and most important city-state of Phoenicia by Alexander the Great

By the Macedonians under Alexander the Great

The siege of Tyre was carried out by Alexander the Great in 332 BC during his campaigns against the Persians. At first, the Macedonian army was unable to capture the city of Tyre, which was a strategic coastal base on the Mediterranean Sea, through conventional means because it was on an island that was 1 kilometer off the coast of modern-day Lebanon and had walls right up to the sea.

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