What city was founded by a Greek hero and is located on the Mediterranean Sea?
Tyre, Lebanon Tyre (Arabic: صور‎ ‎ , "Ṣūr"; Phoenician: 𐤑𐤅𐤓 , "Ṣur"; Hebrew: צוֹר‎ , "Tsor"; Tiberian Hebrew , "Ṣōr"; Akkadian: , "Ṣurru"; Greek: Τύρος, "Týros"; Turkish: "Sur" ; Latin: "Tyrus" , Armenian Տիր [Dir]), sometimes romanized as Sour, is a city in the South Governorate of Lebanon. There were approximately 117,000 inhabitants in 2003. However, the government of Lebanon has released only rough estimates of population numbers since 1932, so an accurate statistical accounting is not possible. Tyre juts out from the coast of the Mediterranean and is located about 80 km south of Beirut. The name of the city means "rock" after the rocky formation on which the town was originally built. The adjective for Tyre is "Tyrian", and the inhabitants are "Tyrians".
Crete Crete (Greek: Κρήτη , "Kríti " ] ; Ancient Greek: Κρήτη , "Krḗtē") is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, 88th-largest island in the world and the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete and a number of surrounding islands and islets constitute the region of Crete (Greek: Περιφέρεια Κρήτης ), one of the 13 top-level administrative units of Greece. The capital and the largest city is Heraklion. s of 2011 , the region had a population of 623,065.