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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. Italian Tripolitania - Wikipedia

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    Italian Tripolitania was an Italian colony, located in present-day western Libya, that existed from 1911 to 1934. It was part of the territory conquered from the Ottoman Empire after the Italo-Turkish War in 1911.

  4. 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:

  5. 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.

  6. Roman Libya - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Tripolitanian Republic - Wikipedia

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    Sulayman al-Baruni, one of the Cyrenaican leaders. The Italian colonial authorities negotiated with al-Baruni and other chiefs and published 1 June 1919 a Colonial Statute for Tripolitania in which the colonial administration would give native Tripolitanians rights to Italian citizenship, recognise Islamic law as the civil law of the colony and provide that the colony would be governed by an ...

  8. Tripolitania (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Tripolitania is an historic region of Libya. Tripolitania may also refer to: Tripolitania (Roman province) Islamic Tripolitania and Cyrenaica; Ottoman Tripolitania;

  9. Tripoli District, Libya - Wikipedia

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    Tripoli District is in the Tripolitania region of northwestern Libya. The district has a shoreline along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north (Gulf of Tripoli), Zawiya in the west, Jafara in the southwest, Jabal al Gharbi in the south and Murqub in the east.