1) Region of north-west libya
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Tripolitania ə or Tripolitana (طرابلس Ṭarābulus, Berber: Ṭrables, from Latin Regio Tripolitana) is a historic region and former province of Libya. Tripolitania was a separate Italian colony from 1927 to 1934. From 1934 to 1963, Tripolitania was one of three administrative divisions within Italian Libya and the Kingdom of Libya, alongsi...
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historical region of North Africa that now forms the northwestern part of Libya.[4 related articles]
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Former province of
Libya, stretching from
Cyrenaica in the east to Tunisia in the west, and from the Mediterranean...
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Tripolitania, Tripolitanian 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 B.C.). Tripolitania fell to the Vandals in A.D. 435, to the Arabs in the seventh century, and finally to the Ottoman Turks in 1553.
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Most populous of Libya's three historic regions, situated in the northwestern part of the country. Name derived from Tripolis (Three Cities).
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