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Trip⋅o⋅li

  [trip-uh-lee]
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–noun
1. Also, Trip⋅o⋅li⋅ta⋅ni⋅a  [trip-uh-li-tey-nee-uh, -teyn-yuh; It. tree-paw-lee-tah-nyah] . one of the former Barbary States of N Africa: later a province of Turkey; now a part of Libya.
2. a seaport in and the capital of Libya, in the NW part. 551,477.
3. a seaport in N Lebanon, on the Mediterranean. 175,000.
4. (lowercase) any of several siliceous substances, as rottenstone and infusorial earth, used chiefly in polishing.
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Tri⋅pol⋅i⋅tan  [tri-pol-i-tn] , noun, adjective
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Trip·o·li   (trĭp'ə-lē)   

  1. A historical region of northern Africa roughly coextensive with the ancient region of Tripolitania. It became part of the Barbary States in the 16th century and later passed to Turkey and Italy.

  2. A city of northwest Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea north-northeast of Beirut. Probably founded after the seventh century B.C., it was capital of a Phoenician federation and later flourished under the Seleucid and Roman empires. Tripoli was captured by the Arabs in A.D. 638 and taken by the Crusaders in 1109 after a long siege. Population: 229,000.

  3. The capital and largest city of Libya, in the northwest part of the country on the Mediterranean Sea. Settled by Phoenicians from Tyre, it has Roman and Byzantine remains. Population: 912,000.

Tri·pol'i·tan (trĭ-pŏl'ĭ-tn) adj. & n.
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Tripoli [(trip-uh-lee)]

Capital of Libya and the largest city in the country, located in northwestern Libya.

Note: The city dates back to the seventh century b.c.
Note: United States war planes attacked Tripoli in 1986 in retaliation for Libyan terrorist acts against American citizens.
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