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Tripolitania / t r ɪ p ɒ l ɪ ˈ t eɪ n i ə / (Arabic: طرابلس), historically known as the Tripoli region, is a historic region and former province of Libya. The region had been settled since antiquity, first coming to prominence as part of the Carthaginian empire .
Largest region of Ethiopia. Tripolitania: 353,000: Historic region and former province of Libya. Buryat Republic: 351,300: Federal subject of Russia. Murzuq District: 349,790: 2nd largest district of Libya. The 32 districts were reorganized into 22 Sha'biyah in 2007, but Murzuq appears to have retained its borders. Kingdom of Prussia: 348,779
Tripolitania, a historic region of Libya Ottoman Tripolitania, ... Salvatore Tripoli (1904–1990), American professional boxer and Olympic medalist;
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]
After Tunis and Egypt fell to the French and to the British respectively, Tripolitania was the last Ottoman possession in Africa. In 1911, the Kingdom of Italy launched an invasion of Tripolitania and annexed the territory after it had defeated the Ottoman troops there. The Italians did not maintain solid control of the region at first.
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 ...
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.
Ottoman Tripolitania, also known as the Regency of Tripoli, was officially ruled by the Ottoman Empire from 1551 to 1912. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It corresponded roughly to the northern parts of modern-day Libya in historic Tripolitania and Cyrenaica .