Tripoli Synonyms

trĭpə-lē
The capital and chief port and largest city of Libya; in northwestern Libya on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by the Phoenicians in the 7th century BC
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Tarabulus Al-Gharb
  2. capital of Libya
A weathered and decomposed siliceous limestone; in powdered form it is used in polishing
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. rottenstone
A port city and commercial center in northwestern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Tarabulus
  2. Tarabulus Ash-Sham
  3. Trablous

Tripoli Sentence Examples

  • He allied himself to the Mongols against the advance of the Egyptian sultan; but in 1268 he lost Antioch to Bibars, and when he died in 1275 he was only count of Tripoli.

  • It was first seen by white men in 1823 when it was reached by way of Tripoli by the British expedition under Dr Walter Oudney, R.N., the other members being Captain Hugh Clapperton and Major (afterwards Lieut.-Colonel) Dixon Denham.

  • In 1850 James Richardson, accompanied by Heinrich Barth and Adolf Overweg, reached the lake, also via Tripoli, and Overweg was the first European to navigate its waters (1851).

  • One of the ancient trade routes across the Sahara - that from Tripoli to Kuka in Bornu - strikes the lake at its northwest corner, but this has lost much of its former importance.

  • With characteristic foresight, Visconti Venosta promoted an exchange of views between Italy and France in regard to the Tripolitan hinterland, which the Anglo-French convention of 1899 had placed within the French sphere of influencea modification of the status quo ante considered highly detrimental to Italian aspirations in Tripoli.

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