siege, ancient

Siege of Tyre

Name: Siege of Tyre
Location: Tyre, Lebanon

Siege of Tyre was a siege conducted in 315 BC at Tyre, in what is now Lebanon; it ran into the following year. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Tyre. It was part of Third War of the Diadochi, which ran from 314 BC to 311 BC. The recorded result: Antigonid victory; Capture of Tyre.

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Fought315 BCran into the following year

WhereTyre, Lebanon33.267N, 35.200E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomeAntigonid victory; Capture of Tyre

BelligerentsPtolemaicagainstAntigonid

Part ofThird War of the Diadochi314 BC to 311 BC

Where it sits in Third War of the Diadochi

5 placed engagements of Third War of the Diadochi in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date	315 BC (year precision) to 314 BC
Place	Tyre, Lebanon 33.267N, 35.200E
Kind	Siege, ancient
Commanders	Ptolemy I Soter	Antigonus I Monophthalmus Demetrius I Poliorcetes

Placed at Tyre; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Siege of Tyre 1187, same recorded site
Siege of Tyre 1124, same recorded site
Siege of Tyre 314 BC, same recorded site
Siege of Tyre 1243, same recorded site
Siege of Tyre 332 BC, 0.6 km NW

In the same war

After: Battle of Aphrodisias 315 BC
All 5 engagements of Third War of the Diadochi

Elsewhere in 315 BC

Battle of Lautulae Italy

Siege of Tyre is one of 137 engagements of the 4th century BC in the atlas and one of 56 in present-day Lebanon.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q139760717, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Siege of Tyre (314 BC), revision 1370746130, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.