List of the kings of Tire

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This page lists the kings of Tire .

Tire was a historic Phoenician city-state in what is now Lebanon . The recurring reminiscences in the royal names of the god Ba'al and the goddess Astarte are remarkable . (See also the Ugaritic religion .)

Kings of Tire, 990-532 BC Chr.

  • Abi-Baʾal 990-978
  • Hiram I 978-944, (after Josephus) built the temple in Jerusalem or Tire in 957, a contemporary of Solomon
  • Baʾal-Eser I. 944-927, (after Josephus) Ba'l-manzer, son of Hiram
  • Abdastratos 927-918, (after Josephus) 'Abd'-aštart, son of Ba'lmanzer, was killed by a plot of his stepbrothers .
  • Methusastartos 918-906, (after Josephus) Metu'-aštart, stepbrother of 'Abd'-aštart, brother of' Aštarum and Pelles
  • Astarymos 906-897, (after Josephus) 'Aštarum, brother of Metu'-aštart and Pelles
  • Phelles 897-896, (after Josephus) Pelles, brother of Metu'-aštart and 'Aštarum, whom he killed
  • Assyrian rule
  • Eš-Baʾal I. 896-863, (after Josephus) Ito-ba'l, a priest defeated Pelles, contemporary v. Omri , war between Israel and Judah, Tire becomes a vassal of Sulmanu-ašared III.
  • Baʾal-Eser II. 863-829, (after Josephus) Ba'l-'ezor, son of Ito-ba'l, Battle of Qarqar 853, contemporary of Achabbu
  • Mattan I. 829-820, (after Josephus) Metten, son of Ba'l-'ezor
  • Pumiyaton 820-774 (after Josephus) Pygmalion , whose sister Dido is said to have built Carthage in 813 .
  • Eš-Baʾal II. 750-739, contemporary of Shipit-Ba'al II of Byblos
  • Hiram II, 739-730
  • Mattan II. 730-729
  • Elulaios 729-694, rebellion of Phoenician cities against Shalmaneser V , Sidon rebels against Sennacherib in 701
  • Abd Melqart 694-680
  • Baʾal I. 680-660, Sidon rebels against Assurhaddon and is destroyed in 677, its inhabitants deported
  • Egyptian rule
  • Under Pharaoh Necho II , an ally of Aššur-uballiṭ II , numerous cities became brief vassals of the Egyptians in 609 (de facto as early as 610), while the Assyrian Empire was conquered through a coalition of Babylon with the Medes. Joschija resisted, however, and was fatally injured at Meggido. In 605 the Egyptian army met with remnants of the Assyrians and the Babylonian army led by Nebuchadnezzar II met with the support of the Medes in the battle of Karkemiš, which Necho II lost. In 601 Nebuchadnezzar II stood at the gates of Egypt and the Levant was conquered. 596-594 BC BC Necho II is said to have commissioned a Phoenician expedition to circumnavigate Africa. According to one theory, Necho II is said to have sent the now homeless Assyrians, including their allies from Syria and Canaan, on an expedition to central Africa Zilum , who founded the Kanem Empire there.
  • Babylonian rule
  • Ešbaʾal III. 591-573, vassal of Nebuchadnezzar II (New Babylonian Empire), beginning of the Babylonian exile of the Jews
  • Baʾal II. 573-564, decline of Tire in favor of Sidon, newly established by Nebuchadnezzar II
  • Yakin-Baʾal 564 (2 months)
  • Keleb 564-563 (10 months)
  • Abba-el II. 563 (3 months)
  • Mattan III. and Ger Ašthari 563-557
  • Baʾal-Eser III. 557-556
  • Mahar-Baʾal 556-552
  • Hiram III 552-532, defection of the Tyrian colony of Carthage
  • Persian rule
  • From 539 the Phoenician cities fell under Persian rule and participated as allies in the Persian Wars, including Carthage, which also formed an alliance with the Etruscans against the Greeks and attacked Syracuse in Sicily.
  • Euagoras , around 350 Sidon rebels under Tennes and is destroyed, Tire again takes over the supremacy among the Phoenicians
  • Azemilkos 340-332, after 7 months of siege, the conquest by Alexander