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1. Tripoli was the next, and other cities in succession, until at last Acre was the only city of Palestine that remained in possession of the Christians.
2. Tripoli is the capital of Libya and its largest city.
3. Tripoli is the largest city, the principal sea port, and the largest commercial and manufacturing centre in Libya.
4. Tripoli is the capital of the North and the country's second largest urban area.
5. Tripoli is a veritable living museum, preserving nearly a hundred important monuments from Crusader, Mamluke and Ottoman times.

Mamluk Sultan Baibars

1. Mamluk sultan Baibars conducts an unsuccessful siege of the city of Tripoli, and also fails in an attempted naval invasion of Cyprus.
2. They arrived in 1271, just as the Mamluk sultan Baibars was unsuccessfully besieging Tripoli, the last remaining territory of the County of Tripoli.

Aradus

1. Aradus (âr' u d u s) [ key ], islet and town of ancient Phoenicia, the modern Arwad or Arvad, N of Tripoli 2 mi off the Syrian coast.

Plancy

1. First Miles of Plancy, then Raymond III of Tripoli became regent during his minority.

Tancred

1. In 1109, after reconciling with Tancred, the two participated in the capture of Tripoli.
2. In 1109 he acted as arbitrator of a council of the greatest barons outside the walls of Tripoli, and forced Tancred to give up his claim to the city.

Amalric

1. Raymond of Tripoli was a cousin of Amalric I of Jerusalem, and one of the Kingdom's most powerful nobles, as well as sometime regent.
2. The lords of both Tripoli and Antioch had been captured by Nuradin, and Amalric went immediately to Antioch to defend the city.

Suzerainty

1. At best, it included only a few other significant cities, such as Beirut and Tyre, as well as suzerainty over Tripoli and Antioch.
2. In 1132 Antioch, Tripoli, and Edessa all asserted their independence and conspired to prevent Fulk from exercising the suzerainty of Jerusalem over them.

Ascalon

1. At best, it included only a few other significant cities, such as Ascalon and some interior fortresses, as well as suzerainty over Tripoli and Antioch.

Fatimids

1. In Tripoli, the Judge Ibn Ammar, one of the followers of the Fatimids, declared his independence.

Valtetsi

1. Kolokotronis first action was the defense of Valtetsi, the village near Tripoli where his army was mustering.

Libyan Capital

1. April 15 - At least 100 people died after USA planes bombed targets in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and the Benghazi region.

Hospitallers

1. The Templars headed to overcrowded Tyre, the Hospitallers to Tripoli, while Ibelin's group headed towards Egypt to be eventually shipped back to Europe.

Knights Templar

1. In 1142 it was given by Raymond II, count of Tripoli, to the Hospitallers, contemporaries of the Knights Templar.

Lebanese City

1. The County of Tripoli (the Lebanese city, not the Libyan capital), founded in 1104, with Tripoli itself conquered in 1109, lasted until 1288.
2. For the Lebanese city of the same name, see Tripoli, Lebanon.

Sabha

1. We take the evening flight from Sabha to Tripoli.
2. People from Ghana, Togo, and Sudan come through Sabha and then to Europe through Tripoli.

Melisende

1. Baldwin himself suggested Manuel marry another cousin, Melisende of Tripoli, preferring not to see such a close relationship between Byzantium and Antioch.

Sibylla

1. Jerusalem capitulated on October 2, and Sibylla was permitted to escape to Tripoli with her daughters.

Cyrenaica

1. Italy declared war on the Empire on September 29, 1911, demanding the turnover of Tripoli and Cyrenaica.

Tripoli Bloc

1. The Tripoli Bloc is a political party in Lebanon.

Zengi

1. Count Raymond of Tripoli is killed, but Count Fulk is able to escape to the Crusader castle of Montferrand which Zengi had been besieging.

Crusader States

1. Its kings also held a certain amount of authority over the other crusader states, Tripoli, Antioch, and Edessa.
2. The County of Tripoli was the last of the four major Crusader states in the Levant to be created.
3. Bohemond IV also came into posssession of the County of Tripoli, combining the two Crusader states for the rest of their histories.

Count Raymond Iii

1. The siege was raised by Count Raymond III of Tripoli, and Raynald was quiet until 1186.
2. Count Raymond III of Tripoli, his father's first cousin, was bailli or regent during Baldwin IV's minority.

Mamluk Tripoli

1. The religious and secular buildings of Mamluk Tripoli comprise a fine example of the architecture of that time.

Control

1. In 1110 he brought Krak des Chevaliers under his control, which would later become an important castle in the County of Tripoli.
2. Bohemund of Tripoli, as Bohemund IV, took control by 1207, but Raymond briefly ruled as a rival from 1216 to 1219.
3. With the death of Bohemond III, a 15-years struggle between Tripoli and Lesser Armenia over control of Antioch ensued.

Ottoman Empire

1. Italy declared war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, demanding the turnover of Tripoli and Cyrenaica.

William

1. William II Jordan (died 1109) was the count of Berga from 1094, count of Cerdanya from 1095, and regent of the county of Tripoli from 1105.
2. She chose Heraclius, since William was closer to Raymond of Tripoli, then in disfavour.
3. However, Agnes was unable to prevent the regent Raymond III of Tripoli from having her daughter Sibylla married to William of Montferrat in 1176.

Sunni Muslims

1. Nahr al-Bared is about nine miles (16 kilometers) north of Tripoli, Lebanon's second-largest city that is home to a large population of Sunni Muslims.

Fall

1. The Lords of Gibelet were vassals of the Count of Tripoli, but enjoyed a brief existence as Mameluke vassals even after the fall of Tripoli proper.

Constable

1. As in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, the County of Tripoli had a smattering of offices: seneschal, constable, marshal, chamberlain, and chancellor.
2. He escaped the sieges of Tripoli, where he had commanded Cypriote reinforcements, and was made Constable of Jerusalem in April 1289.
3. After 1180 he married Maria, daughter of Renier, constable of Tripoli.

Castle

1. Baibars refortified the castle and used it as a base against Tripoli.
2. The castle of Tripoli was followed by that of Tyre.
3. During the period the castle of Saint Gilles was expanded as the Citadel of Mamluk Tripoli.

Reinforcements

1. Ilghazi invaded the Principality in 1119, and despite the urging of the Patriarch, Roger did not wait for reinforcements from Jerusalem or Tripoli.
2. Tripoli waited in vain for reinforcements from Egypt.

Arabs

1. Tripoli was captured by the Arabs in A.D. 638 and taken by the Crusaders in 1109 after a long siege.

Coast

1. Its ruins are located in Al Khums, Libya, 130 km east of Tripoli, on the coast where the Wadi Lebda meets the sea.
2. Using Tripoli as his base, he first travelled about 105 miles west, parallel to the coast, through Zuwarah to the Tunisian border.
3. Bsharreh can be reached from Tripoli or through Ehden or through the Koura district starting at Chekka on the coast.

Mediterranean Coast

1. Tripoli is Libya's capital and major port on the Mediterranean coast.

Crusade

1. After the failure of the crusade, he remained in the Holy Land, in the service of Raymond III of Tripoli.
2. He was born while his father was on crusade, attempting to create the County of Tripoli on the Palestinian coast.

Turks

1. The Master of the Temple hears Turks are in Tripoli, doesn't listen to his companions, gathers troops and finds Saladin at the Spring of Cresson.
2. This was a thinly populated backwater for the Turks, noteworthy mainly for Roman ruins and piracy (with U.S. Marines landing at Tripoli in 1801).

Muslims

1. He helped the Latin rulers of Antioch, Edessa, and Tripoli against the Muslims and fought against the Egyptians.
2. The "noble party" was led by Raymond III of Tripoli and the native nobility of the kingdom, who favoured peaceful co-existence with the Muslims.
3. In 1289, Tripoli fell to the Muslims, and in 1291 the last Christian stronghold in Acre also fell.

Sultan

1. In Baghdad, the sultan received him with great spectacle, but had no time for Tripoli while there was a succession dispute in Mosul.

Arafat

1. Arafat actually returned to Lebanon a year after he was evicted from Beirut, this time establishing himself in Tripoli.

King

1. Raymond of Tripoli seems to have been planning a coup to marry Sibylla to Baldwin, but the king needed to marry her to a non-native, for political reasons.
2. County of Tripoli Normally a vassal state to the King of Jerusalem it has broken with King Fulk after his ascension and many are now talking of war.
3. When the king was aware that Saladin was coming against him he ordered the count of Tripoli to charge.

Possession

1. It was not until April, 1099, that the march towards Jerusalem was begun, Bohemond remaining in possession of Antioch while Raymond seized on Tripoli.
2. Raymond claimed to have found and taken possession of the Holy Lance, and he established the county of Tripoli.

Palestine

1. July 12, 1109 Crusaders capture the harbor city of Tripoli, located along the coast of Palestine.

North Africa

1. LIBYA, in North Africa.--On 23 Feb., 1913, the Prefecture Apostolic of Tripoli was erected into a vicariate Apostolic and its name changed to Libya.

Sicily

1. William II of Sicily sends a fleet which helps save Tyre and Tripoli.

Morocco

1. In North Africa the Turks had (in 1835) assumed direct control of Tripoli, while Morocco had fallen into a state of decay though retaining its independence.

Egypt

1. Following the conquest, Tripoli was ruled by dynasties based in Cairo, Egypt, first the Fatimids, and later the Mamluks.
2. The city then passed into the hands of the rulers of Cyrenaica (a Greek colony on the North African shore, east of Tripoli, halfway to Egypt).
3. Tripoli was sacked by the sultan of Egypt in 1289 and was later rebuilt.

Phoenicians

1. As well, the Phoenicians generally preferred cities that had islands in front of them, as is the case with Tripoli.

Categories

1. Population > Settlements > Cities > Antioch
2. Raymond
3. Africa > Middle East > North Africa > Libya
4. Settlements > Cities > Capitals > Beirut
5. Continents > Africa > Middle East > Lebanon

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