Tripoli
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- proper noun
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Trípoli (Líbano)
- Turkish companies secured $15 billion worth of construction contracts from Tripoli.
- Tripoli in Lebanon
- Tripoli's Islamic
Examples
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In addition, Beirut receives 83 percent of Lebanon's total banking credit compared to Tripoli's 2 percent.
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Tripoli had its share of the civil war, which raged in Lebanon from 1975 to 1989.
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Read the Treaty of Tripoli, and see if you can find the relevant lines.
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Research into the Islamic population in Tripoli or Acre is helpful.
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In the city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon, a street battle erupts.
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Doherty arrived later from Tripoli along with seven other US personnel and 16 Libyans.
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Mount Lebanon was joined with the surrounding areas including Tripoli, Baalbek, Becca, Sidon and Tyre.
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More recently, Rifat Eid, head of Tripoli's Alawite Arab Democratic Party, described the city as the "Lebanese Kandahar."
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Salafi movements sprang up in Tripoli's poor neighborhoods such as Bab at-Tibbane, as-Suwayqa, Abi Samra, and at-Tal.
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The historic port city of Tripoli in Lebanon is known for its beautiful Mediterranean coastline.
Synonyms
The Arabic name for Tripoli, a port city in northwest Lebanon by the Mediterranean Sea
A large port city in northwest Lebanon on the Mediterranean coast
A large port city in northwest Lebanon on the Mediterranean
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tripoli in Lebanon has the same roots: Greek tri- 'three' (think triangle) plus -polis 'city', so it once meant 'three cities'. This is a helpful way to remember the name, because the port grew from a group of three towns into one busy city.