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Tripoli
[trip-uh-lee]
noun
Also Tripolitania one of the former Barbary States of N Africa: later a province of Turkey; now a part of Libya.
a seaport in and the capital of Libya, in the NW part.
a seaport in N Lebanon, on the Mediterranean.
(lowercase), any of several siliceous substances, as rottenstone and infusorial earth, used chiefly in polishing.
tripoli
1/ ˈtrɪpəlɪ /
noun
a lightweight porous siliceous rock derived by weathering and used in a powdered form as a polish, filter, etc
Tripoli
2/ ˈtrɪpəlɪ /
noun
Arabic name: Tarabulus el Gharb. Ancient name: Oea. the capital and chief port of Libya, in the northwest on the Mediterranean: founded by Phoenicians in about the 7th century bc ; the only city that has survived of the three (Oea, Leptis Magna, and Sabratha) that formed the African Tripolis ("three cities"); fishing and manufacturing centre. Pop: 1 223 300 (2002 est)
Arabic name: Tarabulus esh Sham. Ancient name: Tripolis. a port in N Lebanon, on the Mediterranean: the second largest town in Lebanon; taken by the Crusaders in 1109 after a siege of five years; oil-refining and manufacturing centre. Pop: 212 000 (2005 est)
Tripoli
Capital of Libya and the largest city in the country, located in northwestern Libya.
Other Word Forms
- Tripolitan noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of tripoli1
Example Sentences
He died three years later at home in Tripoli.
On 31 August, after six days spent waiting for a meeting with Gaddafi, Sadr was seen being driven away from a Tripoli hotel in a Libyan government car.
The atrocities were allegedly committed in the detention unit near Tripoli in the five years from 2015.
He was returned to Libya and spent the next three years living in a villa in Tripoli before finally succumbing to his illness in 2012.
Thursday's order to expel the aid groups was made by the internationally recognised government based in the capital, Tripoli.
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