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After the final conquest and destruction of Carthage in 146 BC, northwestern Africa went under Roman rule and, shortly thereafter, the coastal area of what is now western Libya was established as a province under the name of Tripolitania with Leptis Magna capital and the major trading port in the region.
Tripolitania within the Diocese of Africa, c.400 AD Notitia Dignitatum - Dux provinciae Tripolitanae. Tripolitania was a province of the Roman Empire.Between the 2nd century BC and the 3rd century AD it had been known as Syrtica; in the 3rd century it was renamed Tripolitania meaning "region of the three cities", referring to Oea (modern Tripoli of Libya), Sabratha and Leptis Magna.
Tripolitania / t r ɪ p ɒ l ɪ ˈ t eɪ n i ə / (Arabic: طرابلس), historically known as the Tripoli region, is a historic region and former province of Libya. The region had been settled since antiquity, first coming to prominence as part of the Carthaginian empire .
Oea (/ ˈ iː ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἐώα [1]) was an ancient city in present-day Tripoli, Libya. It was founded by the Phoenicians in the 7th century BC and later became a Roman–Berber colony. [2] As part of the Roman Africa Nova province, Oea and surrounding Tripolitania were prosperous.
Leptis or Lepcis Magna, also known by other names in antiquity, was a prominent city of the Carthaginian Empire and Roman Libya at the mouth of the Wadi Lebda in the Mediterranean. Established as a Punic settlement prior to 500 BC, [ 2 ] the city experienced significant expansion under Roman Emperor Septimius Severus ( r.
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Cyrenaica (eastern coastal region of Libya) colonized by the Greeks; 2nd C. BCE - Romans in power. 163 CE - Roman Triumphal Arch built (approximate date). [2] 533- Successful recovered by Byzantines of Egypt; 643 - Rashidun caliphate subdued Tripoli. [3] 1140 - Normans in power in Tripolitania. [2] 1149 - Tripoli pillaged by the Normans of ...
Libya Satrapy: satrapy: historically Roman Empire: Roman Libya: Creta et Cyrenaica: province: historically Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Tripolitania) Ottoman Tripolitania 1: vilayet: colonised territory (1st phase) Italian North Africa, from 1912 to 1927: 1 [11] (Italian Libya) or 2 [12] governorate or province: colonised territory (2nd phase ...