Sidon

Sidon or Saida (Arabic: صيدا, Ṣaydā) is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located in the South Governorate, of which it is the capital, on the Mediterranean coast. Tyre to the south and Lebanese capital Beirut to the north are both about 40 kilometres (25 miles) away. Sidon has a population of about 80,000 within city limits, while its metropolitan area has more than a quarter-million inhabitants.

Quotes

• Sidon is a city beside the sea. The sea is the Assyrian; the city is the metropolis of Phoenicia; its people are the forefathers of Thebes.
  • Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon, incipit (tr. John J. Winkler)

• Or did you treading through the froth call to the brown Sidonian
  For tidings of Leviathan, Leviathan or Behemoth?
  • Oscar Wilde, The Sphinx (1894)