Crossword clues for sidon
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ancient Phoenician city, from Greek Sidon, from Phoenician Tzidhon, literally "fishing place," from tzud "to hunt, to capture." Related: Sidonian.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 220
Land area (2000): 0.124566 sq. miles (0.322625 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.124566 sq. miles (0.322625 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67840
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 33.408096 N, 90.208813 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 38954
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Sidon
Wikipedia
Sidon or Saïda (, , ; Phoenician: ????????????, Ṣdn; Biblical Hebrew: , Ṣīḏōn; ; ; ) is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located in the South Governorate of Lebanon, on the Mediterranean coast, about north of Tyre and south of the capital, Beirut. In Genesis, Sidon is a son of Canaan, a grandson of Noah. Its name coincides with the modern Arabic word for 'fishery'. Two castles there were cleaned and restored by the French in the early 20th century.
Sidon is an ancient Phoenician city and a major modern city in Lebanon.
Sidon also may refer to:
Sidon is the surname of:
- Andreas Sidon (born 1963), German professional boxer fighting in the heavyweight division
- Ephraim Sidon (born 1946), Israeli author, playwright and satirist, and writer of children's books
- Karol Sidon (born 1942), Czech rabbi, writer and playwright
- Shimon Sidon (1815–1891), Hungarian rabbi
- Simon Sidon or Szidon (1892–1941), Hungarian mathematician
Usage examples of "sidon".
Already the criers have informed us that a major chief of the Sidonians has been captured by the supreme raid cacique and can be sent with our ultimatum to this huge town New Sidon City.
Gompha, Laodiceia, Emmaus and Thamna were sacked and razed to the ground, their peoples sent to the slave markets of Sidon and Antioch.
Babylon and the shops of Thebes--in Tyre, in Sidon, in Gades, in Palmyra, in Nineveh.
The sachems and caciques wish to speak to a man from Beyond, to send a message to the Dail of the city of New Sidon.
Towards the end of spring I embarked for Italy on a large galley of the fleet, taking with me Celer, now become indispensable, and Diotimus of Gadara, a young Greek of slave origin encountered in Sidon, who had beauty.
The coast was fractured by a number of fossae, and square harbors were being built where these canyons plunged into the ice—Tyre, Sidon, Pyriphlegethon, Hertzka, Morris.
The coast was fractured by a number of fossae, and square harbors were being built where these canyons plunged into the ice-Tyre, Sidon, Pyriphlegethon, Hertzka, Morris.