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  First Barbary War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The First Barbary War (1801–1805, also known as the Barbary Coast War or the Tripolitan War) was one of two wars fought between the United States of America and the North African states known collectively as the Barbary States.
They began a new identity as the "Knights of Rhodes" and began to engage the Barbary Pirates in naval warfare, as part of their greater war on the Ottoman Empire.
Distracted by the preludes to the War of 1812, the Americans were unable to respond to the provocation until 1815, with the Second Barbary War.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Barbary_War   (1691 words)

  
 Tripoli - treaty of tripoli
From the Phoenicians Tripoli treaty of tripoli passed into the hands of the nick tripoli british libya tripoli army kids in tripoli rulers of Cyrenaica (Barca), from whom it was wrested by the Carthaginians.
In 1510 it was taken by Don Pedro Navarro for Spain, and in 1523 it was assigned to the Knights of St. John, who had lately been expelled by the Ottoman Turks from their stronghold in the island of Rhodes.
By the Treaty of Lausanne, Italian sovereignty was acknowledged by Turkey, although the Caliph was permitted to exercise religious authority.
www.meteoroloo.com /Met-Africa-Q---Z/Tripoli.html   (988 words)

  
 Tripoli - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The knights kept it with some trouble till 1551, when they were compelled to surrender to the Turkish admiral Sinan, and Tripoli henceforward joined in the general piracy which made the Barbary states the terror of maritime Christendom.
The Ottoman province (vilayet) of Tripoli (including the dependent sanjak of Cyrenaica) lay along the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia in the west and Egypt in the east.
Tripoli was controlled by Italy until 1943, then occupied by British forces until independence in 1951.
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 WWW-Tipp 3/2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Barbary Wars - examines the U.S. conflict with the four Barbary States of North Africa: Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli.
Escalation, a new American President, and a failure to honour treaties, led to a declaration of war between the Barbary State of Tripolitania and the United States of America.
The Barbary Treaties : Tunis - Convention of February 24, 1824 Amending the Treaty of August 1797, and March 26, 1799
www.norbertschnitzler.de /Surftipps/2002_03.htm   (5619 words)

  
 Everything about 1935   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
By the 19th century the area was an increasingly independent Ottoman province until it came under the control of Italy in 1912.
Under the banner of this authoritarian and nationalist ideology, Mussolini was able to exploit fears in an era in which postwar depression, the rise of a more militant left, and a feeling of national shame and humiliation stemming from its 'mutilated victory' at the hands of the World War I peace treaties seemed to converge.
The term "Axis Powers" was coined by Mussolini, in November 1936, when he spoke of a Rome-Berlin axis in reference to the treaty of friendship signed between Italy and Germany on October 25, 1936.
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