Tyre

Tyre was a major Crusader port located on a promontory jutting into the Mediterranean Sea between Saretta and Acre, in what is now southern Lebanon. Like many of its neighboring coastal cities, it was destroyed by the Mamluks and allowed to fall into ruin in the later Middle Ages, especially since its famous purple dyes were being supplanted by cheaper alternatives such as red madder. Most of La sfera's references to it are variants of its Phoenician name of Sur (rather than the Greco-Roman Tyros); longer variants like the otherwise perplexing trinsisue may be the result of trying to acknowledge both. Campbell #1517.