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Tripoli was founded by Phoenicians [1] Cyrenaica (eastern coastal region of Libya) colonized by the Greeks; 2nd C. BCE - Romans in power. 163 CE - Roman Triumphal Arch built (approximate date). [2] 533- Successful recovered by Byzantines of Egypt; 643 - Rashidun caliphate subdued Tripoli. [3] 1140 - Normans in power in Tripolitania. [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.
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.
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] As part of the Roman Africa Nova province, Oea and surrounding Tripolitania were prosperous.
Map of the world according to Herodotus. During the Iron Age and Classical antiquity, Libya (from Greek Λιβύη: Libyē, which came from Berber: Libu) referred to the area of North Africa directly west of the Nile river (Modern day Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco), not to be confused with modern country Libya which only represents the eastern part of the territory at the time.
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 .
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
Italian Tripolitania was an Italian colony, located in present-day western Libya, that existed from 1911 to 1934.It was part of the territory conquered from the Ottoman Empire after the Italo-Turkish War in 1911.