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Sidon

Ancient name
Sidon
Modern name
Sayda
Modern country
Lebanon
Sidon (now Sayda, Lebanon), was a port along the Levantine coast south of Beirut. It is sometimes conflated with its neigbor Saretta in copies of La sfera (both the text and the maps). Campbell #1515.
Coordinates
33.56, 35.37
This toponym does not appear in the poem, only on the maps accompanying it.
Map of the location P128

Variant spellings of Sidon in Sfera manuscripts

Variant Manuscripts
Suggested citation
Beneš, Carrie. “Sidon.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, February 10, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/sidon/.