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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A historical region of northern Africa bordering on the Mediterranean Sea. Originally a Phoenician colony, it was later held by Carthage, Numidia, and Rome (after 46 BC). Tripolitania fell to the Vandals in AD 435, to the Arabs in the seventh century, and finally to the Ottoman Turks in 1553.

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  • proper noun A historic region of western Libya, centered around the coastal city of Tripoli.

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