Syria Named After Ice Age for Tyre Tsour Sur Meaning Big Rock Inland Hill Become Island of Iron Age Phoenician Fame

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Phoenix, Cadmus, and Europa ventured forth from Tyre when that port was in its infancy, when the Ice Age had recently ended, when what had been a hill about 10 miles from the coast near the LItani river had become a nearshore island in the Mediterranean. Syria doesn’t appear in ancient records until the days of the classical Greeks, named for Tyre, also known as Tsour and Sur (a Semitic word for big rock).