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Ṭarāblus or Ṭarābulus (Arabic: طرابلس) is the Arabic form of Tripoli (Greek: Τρίπολις), often transliterated into Turkish as Trablus, and may refer to: Tripoli, Libya, historically Ṭarābulus al-Gharb ("Western Tripoli") Eyālet-i Trâblus Gârp (province, 1551–1864) of the Ottoman Empire, centered on the city
A map showing the administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire in 1899, including the province of Tripoli. By the 19th century, the province of Tripoli, known officially as Tarablus al-Gharb ('Tripoli of the West') was organized into five sanjaks (districts): [11] Sanjak of Tarablus al-Gharb (Tripoli) Sanjak of Khums; Sanjak of Jabal al-Garb
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 ...
Tarablus is simply the Arabic form of the name Tripoli. Onceinawhile ( talk ) 13:04, 29 September 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] The overlap is small: for less than a third of the entries at Tripoli (disambiguation) is the Arabic version of the name relevant at all, and it's probably only a handful of those that an English speaker is ever likely to see ...
Leo of Tripoli (early 10th century), a Greek renegade and fleet commander for the Abbasid Caliphate; Melisende of Tripoli (fl. around 1160), daughter of the ruler of the Crusader County of Tripoli, Lebanon; Salvatore Tripoli (1904–1990), American professional boxer and Olympic medalist; Tony Tripoli (born 1969), American actor and LGBT rights ...
Tripoli overlooks the eastern Mediterranean Sea, and it is the northernmost seaport in Lebanon. The city is predominantly inhabited by Sunni Muslims, [3] with smaller populations of Alawites and Christians, including Maronites and Armenians among others. [4] The history of Tripoli dates back at least to the 14th century BC.
Tarabulus is the Arabic name for Tripoli, and was sometimes applied to the entire Tripolitania province. The governorate's population was 379,925 in 1964 and had risen to 544,842 by 1972. [ 3 ] Although Tarabulus Governorate constituted less than 1% of the land area in Libya, more than 25% of the population lived there, with a density about ...
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.