[trip-uh-lee] 
| 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. |
[tri-pol-i-tn] , noun, adjective | Tri·pol·i·ta·ni·a (trĭ-pŏl'ĭ-tā'nē-ə, -tān'yə, trĭp'ə-lĭ-) 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. Tri·pol'i·ta'ni·an adj. & n. |
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.