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  2. Tripolitania - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  3. File:Map of traditional provinces of Libye-en.svg - Wikipedia

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    After independence in 1951, until 1963, Libya was divided into three governorates : Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, and Fezzan. The eastern border between Tripolitania and Fezzan was before 1969 slightly different: the northern part of Al Jufrah District in today's Fezzan belonged to Tripolitania, see here File:Ottoman Provinces Of Present day ...

  4. Subdivisions of Libya - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the Italian invasion of 1911, the area of Libya was administered as three separate provinces ("Vilayets") of the Ottoman Empire: Tripolitania, Fezzan, and Cyrenaica. At first, Italy continued the tripartite administration, but soon consolidated the area into a single province/governorate administered as the " Libyan Colony ".

  5. Tripolitania (province of Libya) - Wikipedia

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    Tripolitania province is one of the three traditional Provinces of Libya. It was a formal province from 1934 until 1963, when it was subdivided into the Governorates of Libya. Its capital was the city of Tripoli. Between 1911 and 1934 it had been the separately governed colony of Italian Tripolitania. In 1963 the province was split into:

  6. Roman Libya - Wikipedia

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    The top map shows Mauretania, Numidia and Africa, the bottom map shows Tripolitania, Cyrenaica (Pentapolis) and Marmarica. The territory of Tripolitania was characterized by the presence of a strong punic influence in the three main cities (Tripolitania means "land of three cities") of Oea (actual Tripoli), Sabratha and Leptis Magna , but by ...

  7. Tripoli, Libya - Wikipedia

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    Tripoli, [a] historically known as Tripoli-of-the-West, [b] is the capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.317 million people in 2021. [4] It is located in the northwest of Libya on the edge of the desert, on a point of rocky land projecting into the Mediterranean Sea and forming a bay.

  8. Provinces of Libya - Wikipedia

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    The Provinces of Libya were prescribed in 1934, during the last period of colonial Italian Libya, and continued through post-independence Libya until 1963 when the Governorates system was instituted. The three main provinces of the country follow the original colonial divisions of Italian Libya: Tripolitania province , Cyrenaica province and ...

  9. Ottoman Tripolitania - Wikipedia

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    Ottoman Tripolitania, also known as the Regency of Tripoli, was officially ruled by the Ottoman Empire from 1551 to 1912. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It corresponded roughly to the northern parts of modern-day Libya in historic Tripolitania and Cyrenaica .