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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.
Tripolitania is Libya's most populous region (compared to Fezzan and Cyrenaica). Tripolitania's population has grown throughout years, as has the population of Libya as a whole. Libya's overall population, however, has grown at a rate slightly greater. Because of this, the percentage of Libya's population living within Tripolitania has decreased.
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In a truce, Toghtekin ceded al-Munaytira and Akkar—two fortresses in the Beqaa Valley—to Tripoli, and agreed to share the region's tax revenues with Bertrand. [38] [39] Bertrand actively supported Baldwin's military ventures, participating in the sieges of Beirut and Sidon in 1110, and fighting Damascene invaders in Galilee in 1111. [38]
It was founded in the Levant in the modern-day region of Tripoli, northern Lebanon and parts of western Syria. [1] [2] When the Frankish Crusaders, mostly southern French forces – captured the region in 1109, Bertrand of Toulouse became the first count of Tripoli as a vassal of King Baldwin I of Jerusalem.
Tripoli district is a part of Triplotania geographical region of Libya that runs from north to south and has set of coastal oases, plains and limestone plateaus having an elevation of 2,000 ft (610 m) to 3,000 ft (910 m). The region receives an annual rainfall of 16 in (410 mm).
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.
Leo of Tripoli (early 10th century), a Greek renegade and fleet commander for the Abbasid Caliphate; Melisende of Tripoli (fl. around 1160), daughter of the ruler of the Crusader County of Tripoli, Lebanon; Salvatore Tripoli (1904–1990), American professional boxer and Olympic medalist; Tony Tripoli (born 1969), American actor and LGBT rights ...