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    The Tyre Hippodrome, located in the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon, is an ancient sporting arena and UNESCO World Heritage site dating back to the second...
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  • Maritima Circus Maximus Gerasa Hippodrome of Berytus Hippodrome of Constantinople Hippodrome of Thessalonica Tyre Hippodrome Miróbriga (Mirobriga Celticorum)...
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  • Mediterranean city Tyre or Tyres may also refer to: See of Tyre, a Christian diocese Tyre District, in the South Governorate Tyre Hippodrome, a UNESCO World...
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    founder Dido (Elissa). The city has many ancient sites, including the Tyre Hippodrome, and was added as a whole to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites...
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    sites, including the Tyre Hippodrome, and was added as a whole to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1984. The majority of Tyre's religiously diverse...
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    coins. Subsequently, the famous Triumphal Arch and the Tyre Hippodrome, one of the largest hippodromes in the world (480m long and 160m wide), were constructed...
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    the springs of Ras al-Ain some six kilometers to the South and the Tyre Hippodrome were constructed. The arch was 21 meters high and became the gateway...
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    discovered in 1988. The Roman Hippodrome of Beirut was the second to be discovered in Lebanon after the Tyre Hippodrome, making Lebanon home to two of...
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    triumphal arch and the largest hippodrome in antiquity. Christianity appears in the history of Tyre, with the name Tyre being mentioned in the New Testament...
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    Iulia Augusta Felix Berytus Roman hippodrome. [Tyrus] Wikimapia location: Tyrus Roman circus. [Tyrus] The Circus | Tyre at circusmaximus.us. [Cyrene] Wikimapia...
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  • Zeitoun Tell Zenoub Temnin el-Foka Temple of Eshmun Toron Tyre Hippodrome Tyre Necropolis Tyre, Lebanon Wadi Koura Wadi Yaroun Yammoune Yanta, Lebanon Ain...
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    Sirmium (redirect from Sirmium Hippodrome)
    or Golden Man in Serbian, Aurelius in Latin). Sirmium also had a Roman Hippodrome. A colossal building about 150m wide and 450m long lies directly under...
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    Mount Lebanon. Temple of Bacchus, Baalbek. Triumphal arch of Tyre. The Tyre Hippodrome. The Exedra around the Great Court, Roman Heliopolis. 2nd century...
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    Maha al-Khalil Chalabi (category People from Tyre, Lebanon)
    was to include the re-staging of Roman-style chariot races in the Tyre Hippodrome. In the following year she was elected as a member of the executive...
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    discovered in 1988. The Roman Hippodrome of Beirut was the second to be discovered in Lebanon after the Tyre Hippodrome In view of the modernization of...
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  • lavish festivity including games in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, as fully described by William of Tyre, who happened to be present. Renier was given...
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    neighborhood is roughly bounded by the Pierre Gemayel avenue on the north, the Hippodrome on the west, Sami el Solh avenue on the east, Beirut's pine forest on...
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    two-horse (synoris, συνωρὶς) events. Pausanias describes the Olympic hippodrome of the second century AD, when Greece was part of the Roman Empire. The...
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    Although Berytus was still an important city after earthquakes, around 400 CE Tyre was made the capital of the Roman province of Phoenicia. "Of the great law...
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    Major archaeological sites in Tyre: Al-Bass site, having a three-bay monumental arch, a necropolis and a hippodrome (all dating from the 2nd century...
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    celebrated with feasts, gifts to the church, and chariot races in the Hippodrome for the people. This strengthened the connection of Antioch to the Byzantine...
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    theatre; a temple dedicated to the goddess Roma and Emperor Augustus; a hippodrome rebuilt in the 2nd century as a more conventional theatre;[dubious – discuss]...
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    millimetres (1.2 in) in length screwed into each tread-less tyre, each bike has 90 spikes on the front tyre and 200–500 on the rear. The use of these spikes in...
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    Hardy as Olos Paul Cazeneuve as Pharaoh's Envoy John Cosgrove as King of Tyre Nell Craig as Princess Vashti Al Fremont as Army Captain Earl Crain as Joab...
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    Fort Dunlop (grid reference SP129902), is the common name of the original tyre factory and main office of Dunlop Rubber in the Erdington district of Birmingham...
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  • it was believed that she left her home on 17 April to visit the then Hippodrome in Battery Green Road, but she did not enter the building that day. Police...
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    and won a small victory over Octavian's tired troops outside the city's hippodrome. However, on 1 August 30 BC, Antony's naval fleet surrendered to Octavian...
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    green district of Beirut (secteur du parc) which also include the Beirut Hippodrome and the Beirut Pine Forest and the French ambassador's Pine Residence...
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    CE) explained the word קומפון in the Sifrei of Deuteronomy as meaning, "hippodrome in the Greek language in which all the people enter." The name of this...
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    ISBN 978-2-07-044430-4. Michelin Tyre PLC (1989). Île-de-France: The Region Around Paris. Harrow [England]: Michelin Tyre Public Ltd. Co. ISBN 9782060134116...
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