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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.
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 .
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 ...
Al-Ittihad Sport, Cultural and Social Club formed. United States military base built at Wheelus Field. [14] 1950 Al-Ahly Sports Club formed. Corriere del Lunedi founded. 1951 - City becomes capital of United Libyan Kingdom. 1953 - Almadina Sporting Club formed. 1964 - Population: 213,506. [15] 1973 University of Tripoli established. Population ...
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 .
Tripolitania province is one of the three traditional Provinces of Libya. It was a formal province from 1934 until 1963, when it was subdivided into the Governorates of Libya. Its capital was the city of Tripoli. Between 1911 and 1934 it had been the separately governed colony of Italian Tripolitania. In 1963 the province was split into:
Pages in category "History of Tripolitania" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
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.