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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 1864–1911
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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.
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 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).
More than 5,000 people have died following catastrophic flooding in eastern Libya, according to government and hospital officials, after heavy rain from Storm Daniel inundated the North African ...
[1] [2] It corresponded roughly to the northern parts of modern-day Libya in historic Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] It was initially established as an Ottoman province ruled by a pasha (governor) in Tripoli who was appointed from Constantinople , though in practice it was semi-autonomous due to the power of the local Janissaries .
DERNA, Libya (AP) — Images taken by satellite show the physical devastation from a flood that killed at least 11,300 people in the eastern Libyan city of Derna.. Two dams above Derna burst early ...