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The memoirs of Francesco Crispi states the discussion of Tripoli during the Congress of Berlin. [2] The discussion was halted as it was not a priority, however Italy's attention in the congress was focused on Tripoli. [3] Their expansion into Tripoli, which they believed was their right, was reluctantly accepted by other European Powers. [3]
Tripoli, Lebanon, the second largest city in Lebanon Tripoli District, Lebanon, a district in North Governorate; Tripolis (region of Phoenicia), a maritime district in ancient Phoenicia; County of Tripoli, one of the medieval Crusader states centered in Tripoli, Lebanon; Eyalet of Tripoli, a province of the Ottoman Empire centered in Tripoli ...
The Friuli region has multiplied four provinces in 18 unions of the Italian administrative unit called comune. [18] After rejection of the 2016 Italian constitutional referendum, the provinces of Italy were still kept alive under provisions of the Delrio Constitutional Law to be merged in a smaller number of union of provinces. [19]
The region of Tripoli or Tripolitania derives from the Greek name Τρίπολις "three cities", referring to Oea, Sabratha and Leptis Magna. Oea was the only one of the three cities to survive antiquity, and became known as Tripoli. Today Tripoli is the capital city of Libya and the northwestern portion of the country.
CAIRO (AP) — One of Libya’s rival prime ministers on Monday returned to the capital of Tripoli from Italy on a charter flight with a commercial airline, the first direct flight between the two ...
The proclamation of the republic in autumn 1918 was followed by a formal declaration of independence at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.. The capital of the republic was the town of 'Aziziya, 40 km south of Italian-occupied Tripoli, and its territory stretched at its widest from the Nafusa Mountains, near the Tunisian border, to Misrata and the surrounding coast, encompassing all the ...
The Council of Tripoli was an assembly of crusader states' leaders held in 1109, towards the end of the prolonged siege of the city of Tripoli. The crusader states—Jerusalem, Antioch, Edessa, and the nascent Tripoli—had been established on lands in the Levant conquered by western European aristocrats during and in the aftermath of the First ...
A 17th-century map by the Dutch cartographer Jan Janssonius showing the Barbary Coast, here "Barbaria". The Barbary Coast (also Barbary, Berbery, or Berber Coast) was the name given to the coastal regions of central and western North Africa or more specifically the Maghreb and the Ottoman borderlands consisting of the regencies in Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, as well as the Sultanate of ...