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4.1 Location map templates. 4.2 Creating new map definitions. Toggle the table of contents. Module: Location map/data/Libya Tripoli Old City. 12 languages.
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.
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The fact that Tripoli has been continuously inhabited, unlike Sabratha and Leptis Magna, has meant that the inhabitants have either quarried material from older buildings (destroying them in the process), or built on top of them, burying them beneath the streets, where they remain largely unexcavated. Frontal section of the Temple "Genius Coloniae"
In the County of Tripoli, now in Northern Lebanon and coastal Syria: Chastel Blanc , 1117–1271 [ 3 ] Tartus ( Tortosa ) and its fortress , Templars headquarters 1152–1188 and fortress held until 1291, including the Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa [ 1 ] [ 3 ]
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 Citadel of Tripoli (Arabic: قَلْعَة طَرَابُلُس ALA-LC: Qalʻat Ṭarābulus) is a 12th-century fortress in Tripoli, Lebanon.It was built at the top of a hill "during the initial Frankish siege of the city between 1102 and 1109" [1] on the orders of Raymond de Saint-Gilles, who baptized it the Castle of Mount Pilgrim [2] (French: château du Mont-Pèlerin; Latin: castellum ...