Tyre Lebanon 335BC

Tyre, Lebanon, 335 BC

If you look at Tyre today, you will see that it is a peninsula, but it wasn't always that way, it used to be an island and it's story is fascinating.

Tyre was originally a Brone Age coastal city, founded by the Phoenicians, which quickly grew to become one of the richest and most important cities of it's age. As Tyre's wealth grew it became an obvious and easy target for enemies, and so after several decades it was decided that the city would be moved from the coast, to the island which lay 1km off shore. Tyre now became undefeatable, it's island location and water crossing becoming an impossible barrier for potential attackers to defeat. Until...

In 334BC, Alexander the Great reached Tyre with his armies. Alexander was told by his generals that Tyre would be impregnable, and in the beginning they were correct. Alexander was not convinced however, and started the Siege of Tyre despite its reputation. Alexander drew a plan, they would demolish what remained of the old city on the mainland and use its stones to construct a causeway to the island. The people of Tyre watched frome the safety behind their city walls, as day-by-day Alexander's army laid down more stones and the causeway inched ever closer. After seven months the causeway was completed, Alexander's army crossed what was once sea and the rest is history.

Now after more than 2000 years of silt building up by the causeway, Tyre is a peninsula and the island is long gone. This map represents Ancient Tyre, before Alexander the Great came to say Hi.

Installation:

• Extract the .cok and .cok.cid files into your folder “AppData/LocalLow/Colossal Order/Cities Skylines II/Maps"
• If there is no "maps" folder yet in this folder, create a Maps folder.

Map Information: THEME: European (to be updated when official Editor is released) CLIMATE: 11 - 27 C LATITUDE: Northern Hemisphere BUILDABLE AREA: 54% OUTSIDE CONNECTIONS: All Connections available. Road. Rail. Sea. Air. Power. NATURAL RESOURCES: Fertile land, Oil, and Ore cover most of the map.

Cheers, AncientSwan