Tyre refused Alexander entry in 332 BCE and he besieged it for roughly seven months, building a causeway from the mainland to the island city. When it fell, the ancient historians record about 6,000 defenders killed in the assault, some 2,000 men crucified along the shore as an exemplary punishment, and about 30,000 of the remaining inhabitants and resident foreigners sold into slavery, with those who had taken refuge in the temple of Heracles spared. Gaza, which also resisted, was stormed shortly afterwards; its male population was killed and the women and children enslaved, and the site was resettled with people from the surrounding country. Both cities were repopulated and continued to function, so the outcome was the replacement rather than the permanent erasure of an urban population. All the figures derive from Roman-era authors using earlier campaign histories that no longer survive.
Alexander III of Macedon took the island city of Tyre after a seven-month siege and then Gaza, killing and enslaving their populations and repopulating the sites
The ancient sources - Arrian, Diodorus and Curtius - report about 8,000 killed and 30,000 sold into slavery at Tyre and 10,000 killed at Gaza, with the women and children sold. Modern estimates of Tyre's population, from its island area and its role as a Phoenician metropolis, run 30,000-40,000, and Gaza's around 10,000.
The range combines the roughly 6,000 Tyrians reported killed in the storming with the 2,000 reported crucified afterwards. Both figures come from Roman-era historians rather than from any contemporary record, and deaths at Gaza are unquantified.
Arrian, Diodorus and Curtius Rufus describe the seven-month blockade, the killing of the population at the storming and the mass crucifixion of some 2,000 survivors.
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