Editing Sidon (section)

===Roman period===
When Sidon fell under Roman domination, it continued to mint its own silver coins.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wicenciak |first=Urszula |date=2019-09-02 |title=Aspects of economic activity in Phoenicia during Roman and Byzantine times. The case of olive oil and amphora production in Chhim, in the chora of Sidon |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00758914.2020.1854973 |journal=Levant |language=en |volume=51 |issue=3 |pages=314–336 |doi=10.1080/00758914.2020.1854973 |issn=0075-8914}}</ref> The city was embellished by [[Herod the Great|Herod]], king of [[Herodian kingdom|Judaea]],<ref name=":03" /> who built there a theatre.<ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last=Rogers |first=Guy MacLean |title=For the Freedom of Zion: the Great Revolt of Jews against Romans, 66-74 CE |date=2021 |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |isbn=978-0-300-24813-5 |location=New Haven |pages=22, 536}}</ref> By the [[First Jewish–Roman War]], Sidon sheltered enough [[Jews]] that local pagans hesitated to attack them during the broader massacre of Jews in Greco-Syrian towns in 66 CE, as documented by [[Josephus]].<ref name=":03">{{Cite book |last=Schulze |first=Kirsten |url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-jews-in-the-islamic-world/*-SIM_0007390 |title=Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World |publisher=Brill Reference Online |editor-last=Stillman |editor-first=Norman A. |chapter=Sidon|date=October 2010 }}</ref>[[File:Roman era Phoenecia.png|thumb|The [[Tabula Peutingeriana|Peutinger Table]] showing the location of Tyre and Sidon within the Roman Empire]]

The Romans built a theater and other major monuments in the city, and [[Sidon Mithraeum|an underground Mithraeum]] was discovered. In the reign of [[Elagabalus]], a [[Colonia (Roman)|Roman colony]] was established there. During the [[Byzantine Empire]], when the [[551 Beirut earthquake|great earthquake of AD 551]] destroyed most of the cities of [[Phoenice (Roman province)|Phoenice]], the [[law school of Berytus]] took refuge in Sidon. The town continued quietly for the next century, until the [[Muslim conquest of the Levant]] in 636.<ref name=":02" /><ref name=":4" />