Tiryns, an ancient city of Greece, excavated by Schliemann in 1884-1885; situated in the Peloponnesus, in the plain of Argolis, 3 m. from the head of the Argolic Gulf; legend associates it with the early life of Hercules; has ruins of a citadel, and of Cyclopean walls unsurpassed in Greece.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Tirnova * Tischendorf, Constantin von