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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]
Historically, the name Tripoli designated a region rather than a city, just as today in Arabic the same word Tarablus (طرابلس) is used for both the city and the region. The Arabic word used alone would be understood to mean only the city; in order to designate Tripolitania in Arabic, a qualifier such as "state", "province" or "sha'biyah ...
During the Kingdom of Italy, regions were mere statistical districts of the central state. Under the Republic, they were granted a measure of political autonomy by the 1948 Italian Constitution . The original draft list comprised the Salento region (which was eventually included in Apulia ); Friuli and Venezia Giulia were separate regions, and ...
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, 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 ...
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 ...
In 1835, the Ottomans reestablished direct control over the region until its annexation by Italy in 1912. [4] Like the Ottoman regencies in Tunis and Algiers, the Regency of Tripoli was a major base for the privateering activities of the North African corsairs, who also provided revenues for Tripoli.