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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.
The city of Tripoli was one of the last Byzantine outposts on the Syrian coast of the Mediterranean Sea during the early Muslim conquests; it surrendered in 645. [1] [2] Syria was a central province of the Muslim Caliphate, but the Abbasid caliphs' control of the region faded away towards the end of the 9th century.
1149 - Tripoli pillaged by the Normans of Sicily. [4] 1401 - Tripoli was reconquered by the Tunisians. [4] 1510 - 25 July: Spanish forces captured the city; [4] it remained under Spanish rule for the next two decades. [5] 1530 - Tripoli granted to the Knights Hospitaller; it remained under their rule for the next two decades. [2] [4]
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County of Tripoli coins: gold bezant with a text in Arabic (1270–1300), and Tripoli silver gros (1275–1287). British Museum . The extent of the County of Tripoli was determined in part by pre-existing Byzantine borders and in part by victory in battle, tempered by the demands of neighbouring crusader states.
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.