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1951 - City becomes capital of United Libyan Kingdom. 1953 - Almadina Sporting Club formed. 1964 - Population: 213,506. [15] 1973 University of Tripoli established. Population: 551,477. [16] 1975 - Misurata-Tripoli highway constructed. [17] 1978 Libyan Studies Center opens. Tripoli International Airport renovated. 1982 June 11 Stadium opens.
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.
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 ...
History of Tripoli, Libya, a city in Libya; History of the County of Tripoli, a crusader state in what is now Lebanon This page was last edited on 21 ...
The history of the County of Tripoli, a crusader state in the Levant, spans the period between 1103 and 1289. The county was established in the aftermath of the First Crusade by the Toulousian crusader leader Raymond of Saint-Gilles (d. 1105). He laid siege to the city of Tripoli with Byzantine support in 1103.
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.
Tripoli, today the capital city of Libya, was a presidio of the Spanish Empire in North Africa between 1510 and 1530. The city was captured by Spanish forces in July 1510, and for the next two decades it was administered as an outpost which fell under the jurisdiction of the Spanish Viceroy of Sicily .
The Arch of Marcus Aurelius in Oea. 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]