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The walled Nahr Abu Ali at Tripoli. Tripoli (/ ˈ t r ɪ p əl i / TRIP-əl-ee; Arabic: طَرَابُلُس, ALA-LC: Ṭarābulus, [1] pronounced [tˤaˈraːbulus] ⓘ; Lebanese Arabic: طرابلس, romanized: Ṭrāblus, locally [ˈtˤrɔːblɪs]; see below) is the largest and most important city in northern Lebanon and the second-largest city in the country. [2]
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.
Tripoli, Libya, historically Ṭarābulus al-Gharb ("Western Tripoli") Eyālet-i Trâblus Gârp (province, 1551–1864) of the Ottoman Empire, centered on the city Vilâyet-i Trâblus Gârp, name of the province between 1864 and 1911
Tripoli, Libya, the capital of Libya Tripoli District, Libya, one of Libya's districts; Tripolitania, a historic region of Libya Ottoman Tripolitania, frequently described as the "Kingdom of Tripoli" Tripolis (region of Africa), a district in ancient Tripolitania; Islamic Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, historical polity
People look at the list of missing people in the aftermath of the floods in Derna on Sept. 14. Esam Omran Al-Fetori—Reuters Toys are scattered outside a damaged house in Derna on Sept.14.
The Citadel of Tripoli (Arabic: قَلْعَة طَرَابُلُس ALA-LC: Qalʻat Ṭarābulus) is a 12th-century fortress in Tripoli, Lebanon.It was built at the top of a hill "during the initial Frankish siege of the city between 1102 and 1109" [1] on the orders of Raymond de Saint-Gilles, who baptized it the Castle of Mount Pilgrim [2] (French: château du Mont-Pèlerin; Latin: castellum ...
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 ...
Libya has maintained that the cleric, along with two traveling companions, left Tripoli in 1978 on a flight to Rome. Human Rights Watch issued a statement in January calling for Gadhafi’s release.