Definitions
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 ofTripoli .
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Examples
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In the same period in Tripolitania Mussolini annihilated the Moslem population to the tune of 500,000 from an original population of 1,000,000.
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No one asks "is that why Libya was divided for centuries into an Eastern region called Cyrenaica with its capital at Benghazi and a Western region called Tripolitania with its capital at Tripoli?"
Benjamin R. Barber: Western Media in Libya: Journalists or the Propaganda Arm of the Insurgency? Benjamin R. Barber 2011
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Very few are in Tripolitania, which is basically just the western coastal strip.
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There will remain the schism between the provinces of Tripolitania in the west and Cyrenaica in the east.
A Thrilling Spectacle in Tripoli Fouad Ajami 2011
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The desert domain that was now his was sparsely populated, made up of three distinct provinces—Tripolitania in the West, Cyrenaica in the East, and Fazzan in the desert to the South.
Gadhafi and the Swindle of Dictatorship Fouad Ajami 2011
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It will require in Libya that 140 tribes be reconciled, that the 300 year old quarrel of East and West, Cyrenaica and Tripolitania, be put aside.
Benjamin R. Barber: Sic Semper Tyrannis (But Now Comes the Hard Part) Benjamin R. Barber 2011
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Why should Libya not break back into Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and a desert polity of some sort Libya battleground, 23 March?
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Born on 11 April 145 Septimius Severus was a native of the northern African colony of Lepcis Magna in Tripolitania Libya, the scion of a provincial family whose heads had risen to senatorial rank under the aegis of Trajan.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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William Eaton, who led the march into Tripolitania, was not technically the consul in Alexandria, but what we would today call a "naval attache."
princeofcairo: Hour Two of Me Talking! princeofcairo 2009
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William Eaton, who led the march into Tripolitania, was not technically the consul in Alexandria, but what we would today call a "naval attache."
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2009
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