{"id":21864,"count":1,"description":"Sidon or Sa\u00efda (Arabic: \u0635\u064a\u062f\u0627\u200e, \u1e62ayd\u0101; Phoenician: , \u1e62ydwn; Greek: \u03a3\u03b9\u03b4\u03ce\u03bd; Latin: Sidon; Hebrew: \u05e6\u05d9\u05d3\u05d5\u05df\u200e, \u1e62\u012b\u1e0f\u014dn, Turkish: Sayda) is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located in the South Governorate of Lebanon, on the Mediterranean coast, about 40\u00a0km (25\u00a0mi) north of Tyre and 40\u00a0km (25\u00a0mi) south of the capital Beirut. In Genesis, Sidon is the son of Canaan the grandson of Noah. Its name coincides with the modern Arabic word for fishery.\nSidon is a city of 200,000 inhabitants who are overwhelmingly Muslims.\nSidon has been inhabited since very early in prehistory. The archaeological site of Sidon II shows a lithic assemblage dating to the Acheulean, whilst finds at Sidon III include a Heavy Neolithic assemblage suggested to date just prior to the invention of pottery. It was one of the most important Phoenician cities, and may have been the oldest. From here, and other ports, a great Mediterranean commercial empire was founded. Homer praised the skill of its craftsmen in producing...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/sidon\/","name":"Sidon","slug":"sidon","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/21864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=21864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}