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	Encyclopedia: Tripoli, Libya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tripoli (population 1 million, Arabic: Ţarabulus) is the capital of Libya.
		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.
		From the Phoenicians Tripoli passed into the hands of the rulers of Cyrenaica (Barca), from whom it was wrested by the Carthaginians.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tripoli,-Libya (780 words)

	Tripoli Libya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tripoli became an Arab Muslim stronghold; but in its history, the city was destined to face more conquerors-i.e.
		Tripoli, again, witnessed an unpleasant event which Occurred between (1801 and 1804) for which, I Presume is worthy of record because it has become a part of its struggle for freedom and independence.
		One of these Warships, the "Philadelphia" foundered on the rocks in Tripoli Port The Libyan seized her while she was tendered immovable and turned her guns on the other American warships.
	www.libyaninvestment.com /travel/tripoli.html (1026 words)

	Libya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tripoli and Cyrenaica were Roman colonies until they were conquered by Arab Muslims in the 7th century.
		The sanctions were lifted on September 12, 2003, after Libya agreed to accept responsibility and make payment of US $2.7 billion to the families of those who died in the bombing.
		In practice, however, Libya is essentially a militarydictatorship, with Qadhafi ruling by decree, assisted by a small clique of military and political officials.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libya (1423 words)

	Tripoli, Libya
		Tripoli is the largest city, the principal sea port, and the largest commercial and manufacturing centre in Libya.
		United Nations sanctions against Libya were lifted in 2003, which is expected to increase traffic through the Port of Tripoli and have a positive impact on the city's economy.
		Tripoli, a large modern seaport, is located in the northwest of Libya on the Mediterranean coast.
	creekin.net /c3772-n106-tripoli-libya.html (898 words)

	Tripoli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Is situated in northwestern Libya, 90 km east of the border to Tunisia.
		Tripoli is now sole capital of Libya, a position the city shared with Benghazi from independence in 1951 until the 1970's.
		Tripoli is a principal seaport, and the commercial centre of Libya.
	www.lexicorient.com /e.o/tripoli.htm (545 words)

	An MBendi Profile: Libya - Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Libya is located in North Africa and lies between latitudes 33°N and approximately 20°N and longitudes 8°E and 25°E. It is bordered by Egypt to the east, Sudan to the south-east, Chad and Niger to the south with Algeria and Tunisia to the west and north-west respectively.
		Libya has recently begun a process initiated by Mr Qadhafi in which the aim is to resume as many flights as possible with a variety of European cities.
		Libya has a number of chambers of commerce and industry and details of these can be found via our Organisation Search, as can details of relevant government departments.
	www.mbendi.co.za /cylbcy.htm (1923 words)

	Tripoli (Libya) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Tripoli (Libya) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Capital and chief port of Libya, on the Mediterranean coast, 600 km/373 mi west of Benghazi; population (1996 est) 990,000, urban agglomeration 1,682,000.
		Old Tripoli is a typical Moorish city, containing a Spanish fortress, many beautiful gardens, and several fine mosques, including the Great Mosque (1294) and the Teylan Mosque (1336).
		Tripoli is at the junction of old caravan routes to Timbuktu, Lake Chad, and Darfur, and three railway lines diverge from it to Zuara, Garian, and Tagiura.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Tripoli+(Libya) (256 words)

	Travel in Tripoli - Libya - Africa - Culture - WorldTravelGate.net®- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The arabic spoken in Libya is generally different from the French-influenced Arabic of the Maghreb with its quite separate accent and dialect from the Arabic of the Nile valley.
		The Phoenician, Roman, and Byzantine ports of TRIPOLI, SABRATAH, LIBDAH, SHAH'HAT, SUSAH, TUKRAH, and TALMITHA.
		TRIPOLI has changed little since its foundation in the first millennium BC: it is still a lush garden filled with olive trees, palms, grapevines, and orange groves.
	www.africatravelling.net /libya/tripoli/tripoli_culture.htm (783 words)

	Tripoli, Libya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1911 the EncyclopediaBritannica estimated a Tripolitanian population to be from 800,000 to 1,300,000.
		In the early part of the 19th century the regency at Tripoli, owing to its piratical practices, was twice involved in war withthe United States.
		In 1835 the Turks took advantage of a local civil war to reassert their direct authority, and after that date Tripoli wasunder the direct control of the Sublime Porte, rebellions in 1842 and1844 being unsuccessful.
	www.therfcc.org /tripoli%2C-libya-68179.html (401 words)

	Libya Country Analysis Brief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Libya is hoping to reduce its dependency on oil as the country's sole source of income, and to increase investment in agriculture, tourism, fisheries, mining, and natural gas.
		Libya is considered a highly attractive oil province due to its low cost of oil recovery (as low as $1 per barrel at some fields), the high quality of its oil, its proximity to European markets, and its well-developed infrastructure.
		Libya has five domestic refineries, with a combined nameplate capacity of approximately 380,000 bbl/d, significantly higher than the volume of domestic oil consumption (227,000 bbl/d; the rest is exported).
	www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/libya.html (4912 words)

	Tripoli, Libya - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		It is the largest city, a principal seaport, and the leading commercial and manufacturing center of Libya.
		Tripoli is the site of Alfateh University; colleges of arts and crafts, electronics, technology, and telecommunications; the National Archives, with a large collection of documents relating to the history of Tripolitania; and the Government Library.
		When Libya was granted independence in 1951, Tripoli and Benghazi became co capitals of the country; Tripoli was made the sole capital in the early 1970s.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /tripoli_libya.htm (239 words)

	Libya: News and Views
		Libya wants the Security Council to ask why the United States is still offering a reward for the apprehension of two men wanted in the bombing of an airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, when arrangements for their handover have already been made.
		Libya's U.N. ambassador, Abuzed Omar Dorda, delivered a letter to Annan in a hastily-arranged meeting after South African President Nelson Mandela announced in Tripoli that Libya had set a date for the handover to a Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands.
		Libya appeared Monday to back away from its claim that the two suspects in the Lockerbie bombing case should be tried in the International Court of Justice in The Hague rather than the Scottish court agreed to in a United Nations - brokered compromise.
	www.libyanet.com /3-99nwsc.htm (4828 words)

	Libya Special Weapons
		Libya was no position to obtain access to nuclear weapons in the foreseeable future, given the extremely limited domestic technical base of the country.
		Libya appeared to be providing financial assistance and, later, deliveries of uranium "yellow cake" originating in Niger in the hope of eventually being compensated by weapons from Pakistan.
		Libya had a theoretical capability of delivering nuclear weapons in the form of Scud and FROG missiles and missiles delivered by medium-range Tu-22 bombers.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/libya (831 words)

	Libya (12/04)
		Libya remained part of their empire--although at times virtually autonomous--until Italy invaded in 1911 and, in the face of years of resistance, made Libya a colony.
		Libya's use--and heavy loss--of Soviet-supplied weaponry in its war with Chad was a notable breach of an apparent Soviet-Libyan understanding not to use the weapons for activities inconsistent with Soviet objectives.
		Libya paid compensation in 1999 for the death of British policewoman Yvonne Fletcher, a move that preceded the reopening of the British Embassy in Tripoli, and paid damages to the families of the victims in the bombing of UTA Flight 772.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5425.htm (4508 words)

	AllRefer.com - Tripoli, city, Libya, Libya (Libyan Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		990,697), capital of Libya and of Tripoli dist., NW Libya, a port on the Mediterranean Sea.
		Captured in 1510 by the Spanish, Tripoli was granted (1528) to the Knights of St. John, who held it until 1551, when it was taken by the Ottoman Turks.
		In 1911, Tripoli passed to Italy, and later it was made the capital of the Italian colony of Libya.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/TripoliLib.html (364 words)

	Tripoli, Libya - Reviews on RateItAll
		Tripoli is the capital of Libya, located in Northwester Libya on the Mediterranean Sea.
		Tripoli is Libyaâ€™s major administrative, transportation, industrial, and commercial hub, and is noted for its textile, tobacco, and woven goods manufacturing.
		Tripoli was founded by the Phoenicians around the 7th century B.C., and was called Oea; Tripoli was subsequently captured by the Romans (1 century AD), the Vandals (5th Century AD), and the Spanish in 1510.
	www.rateitall.com /i-7974-tripoli-libya.aspx (177 words)

	CNN.com - U.N.: Libya nuke-free in 3 months - Feb. 24, 2004
		Shalgam urged other nations in the region to follow Libya's example and use nuclear energy only "for the sake of prosperity and progress." While not naming any particular countries, his comments appeared directed at Israel, which is thought to have nuclear weapons but has never acknowledged possessing them.
		Libya was able to work for two decades on a secret nuclear arms program because of imports of fl market technology and knowhow.
		Libya, a key customer of the nuclear peddlers, has blown the whistle on the head of the network, Pakistani scientist Abdul Wader Khan, and more than a dozen of his middlemen.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/africa/02/24/iaea.libya.ap/index.html (987 words)

	North Africa GeoNet
		Palaeogeological maps (Stephanian-Autunian to Pliocene) of Libya and the Gulf of Sirte (IGCP 369).
		Libya seep screening study and Eastern Mediterranean seep-seismic study, by Infoterra (formerly NRSC).
		IEF (International Energy Foundation): founded in Tripoli, Libya in 1988, this is a non-political, non-governmental group of scientists, researchers, engineers and others from around the world, working together.
	www.northafrica.de /libya.htm (961 words)

	LIBYA: OUR HOME ليبيا وطننا (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Embassies of Libya and Embassies in Libya سفارات ليبيا ، والسفارات الأجنبية في ليبيا
		Libya: Libyan Mujahed: Ramadan al-Swehli ليبيا : المجاهد الليبي رمضان السويحلي
		Libya: Libyan Mujahed Saleh al-Kailani al-Ataiwesh ليبيا : المجاهد الليبي صالح الكيلاني الأطيوش
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dr_ibrahim_ighneiwa (1901 words)

	Panapress Official Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan leader, Moammar Kadhafi and President Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali, also chairman of the Community of Sahel and Saharan States (CEN-SAD) have held a telephone conversation concerning support for the community, which is also a pillar for the African Union.
		Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan newspapers devoted their weekend editions to the just-ended summit of the Community of Sahel- Saharan States (CEN-SAD) held in Bamako, Mali, laying emphasis on the unifying aspect of the grouping of 18 African countries.
		Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) has criticised the ruling by a Scotish Court, which confirmed the life sentence against Libya's Abdel-Basset Al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of planting a bomb aboard a PAN AM passenger plane in late 1988.
	www.panapress.com /dossindexlat.asp?code=eng015 (3768 words)

	Libya: Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 24 BC it was invaded by the Garamants who came from the South of Libya.
		In 1911 the Italians invaded Libya and started their era in which Libya lost more than half its population dut to resistance, hunger and concentration camps.
		Tripoli is a very beautiful city and it got another name "Arous Albahr Almotawasit" or "The Jewel of the Mediterranean".
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dr_ibrahim_ighneiwa/tripolic.htm (246 words)

	Tripoli, Libya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		TRIPOLI, October 25 -- Prime Minister Tony Blair has hailed the "positive and concrete" developments in relations between Britain and Libya, and expressed his country's willingness to further enhance ties with the North African nation, official sources said here Monday.
		TRIPOLI, October 24 -- Emirates, one of the worldâs fastest growing airlines, re-affirmed its commitment to Libya, with the announcement of an increase in services later this year.
		Tripoli, Libya, 10/19 - Libya has formed a national commission to monitor the poultry fever at international and regional level, official sources said here on Tuesday.
	57910.mallforeverything.com (403 words)

	The Country and People of Libya
		Most of Libya is part of the Sahara desert; the population is restricted to a coastal strip along the Mediterranean and a few widely scattered oases in the Libyan desert, in the east, and the Fazzan region, in the south.
		In 1992 the UN Security Council accused Libya of supporting state terrorism and called for a ban on air flights and arms sales to it unless suspects in the Lockerbie and another airplane bombing were turned over to the U.S., Britain, and France.
		Libya agreed in 2003 to a $2.7 billion settlement with the families of the victims.
	www.hejleh.com /countries/libya.html (2173 words)

	Libya map and information page by World Atlas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tripoli, the ancient capital city, was designed by the Romans, and remains one of the most exotic destinations on the planet.
		Oil is the driving force in the country's economy, and in fact, Libya has the highest standard of living in Africa.
		Climate Temperatures in Libya are hot, especially in the desert regions (90% of the country) during the extended summer months.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/africa/ly.htm (449 words)

	Libya Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Libya dismisses asylum seeker in Morocco as mental patient
		Arabic News Libya is continuing to run its air bridge to deliver emergency humanitarian aid...
		Tripoli - Libya said on Wednesday it was "surprised" by charges of t...
	www.libyadaily.com (255 words)

	USATODAY.com - French foreign minister says Chirac will visit Libya this year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said Wednesday that President Jacques Chirac has accepted an invitation to visit Libya this year.
		It would be the first trip to Libya by a French president in two decades.
		It has agreed to train Libyan police, and lobbied the European Union to lift sanctions against Libya to allow the North African country to military surveillance equipment and help battle illegal immigration.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-10-06-france-libya_x.htm (377 words)

	Libya News
		Libya, which last week signed a deportation agreement with Britain, said on Sunday it thinks all members of the radical Libyan Islamic Fighting Group should be deported, not just some.
		Turks were recruited to go to the Libyan (or Tripoli) campaign in 1911 to be followed by the Balkan War next year that ended up by loosing all of the East European lands of the Empire in 1913.
		Libya is looking to date palm and olive crops - valuable trading commodities in the Mediterranean - as potential ways of supplementing its oil revenues.
	www.topix.net /world/libya (1231 words)

	Canadian Embassy in Tunisia :: About Libya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Canadian Ambassador to Tunisia remains accredited to Libya and a Chargé d'affaires is resident in Tripoli.
		Public Affairs and Culture: Information is available at the Tripoli embassy and through the internet on all aspects of Canadian life, economy, civil society, culture and government policies and programs and any aspect of Canada Libya relations (www.canada.gc.ca).
		The Embassy was pleased to participate in a first time Canada exhibit at the Tripoli International Fair in April, 2002 sponsored by the Canada Libya Chamber of commerce (www.clcci.org) with the presence of a number of Canadian companies and will do again in 2003.
	www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /tunisia/about_libya-en.asp (443 words)

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