Sidon

صيدا

Coastal city in Lebanon south of Beirut.

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Region
Levant & Iraq
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Home of
Conrad, Marquis of Montferrat
Birthplace of
Kamel al-Baba· Mansur ibn Alwan al-Saydawi
Site of
Battle of Sidon· Siege of Sidon

People and things also explored

The assassination of the Marquis of Tyre (588 AH)· Abd al-Majid I· al-Mustazhir bi'llah Ahmad ibn al-Muqtadi· Damascus· Battle of Sidon· Siege of Sidon· Conrad, Marquis of Montferrat· Kamel al-Baba

Sources

  • Wikidata
  • GeoNames gazetteer
  • Nomisma.org (Linked Open Data ontology for numismatic concepts)
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islam.museum contributors. “Sidon”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/sidon/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-12.

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The assassination of the Marquis of Tyre (588 AH)

13 Rabi' II 588 (April 1192): the Marquis of Tyre — 'greatest of the Frankish devils' — was cut down by two Assassins in monks' garb who had spent six months in the households of Sidon's lord and Ibn Barzan winning his trust; wounded at a bishop's banquet, he was carried to a church where one of them, hiding inside, finished him; Ibn al-Athir reports Saladin had offered Sinan ten thousand dinars for the deed or for Richard's, and the Franks blamed the English king.