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	Tripolitania on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BC the Phoenicians established colonies on the coast at Leptis, Oea (later Tripoli), and Sabratha.
		The coastal zone was later held by Carthage and was taken by Numidia in 146 BC Rome captured Tripolitania in 46 BC, and in the following centuries, as Roman rule was extended far into the south, the region prospered as a trade and agricultural center.
		The Normans briefly held the region in the mid-12th cent., and from the mid-13th to the mid-15th cent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Tripolit.asp (334 words)

	Tripolitania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tripolitania is a historic region of western Libya, centered around the coastal city of Tripoli.
		The region was originally inhabited by Berbers; in the 7th century BC Phoenicians settled in colonies along the coast, which later came under the control of Carthage.
		Originally administered as part of a single colony, Tripolitania was its own colony from 26 June 1927 to 3 December 1934, when it was merged into "Libya".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tripolitania (337 words)

	Tripolitania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tripolitania is a historic region of western Libya, centered aroundthe coastal city of Tripoli.
		The region was originally inhabited by Berbers ; in the 7th century BC Phoenicians settled in colonies along the coast, which later came under the control of Carthage.
		Originally administered as part of asingle colony, Tripolitania was its own colony from 26 June 1927 to 3 December 1934,when it was merged into "Libya".
	www.therfcc.org /tripolitania-92389.html (293 words)

	Libya and the Romans
		Tripolitania was a major exporter of olive oil, as well as being the entrepôt for the gold and slaves conveyed to the coast by the Garamentes, while Cyrenaica remained an important source of wines, drugs, and horses.
		With the definitive partition of the empire in 395, the Libyans were assigned to the eastern empire; Tripolitania was attached to the western empire.
		Effective Byzantine control in Tripolitania was restricted to the coast, and even there the newly walled towns, strongholds, fortified farms, and watchtowers called attention to its tenuous nature.
	countrystudies.us /libya/8.htm (911 words)

	Libya History
		At the heart of Tripolitania was its metropolis, Tripoli for centuries a terminal for caravans plying the Saharan trade routes and a port sheltering pirates and slave traders.
		Tripolitania was assigned to Rome’s ally, the Berber king of Nomidia.
		In 1920 an accord was reached between Italy and the Sanusi leaders that confirmed Idris as amir of Cyrenaica and recognized his vertual indipendence in an immense area in the interior that encompassed all the principal oasis.
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	Tripolitania -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tripolitania is a historic region of western (A military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum; involved in state-sponsored terrorism) Libya, centered around the coastal city of (A port city and commerical center in northwestern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea) Tripoli.
		The (A member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa) Arabs swept through in the (Click link for more info and facts about 7th century) 7th century.
		Most valuable are the (A large rigid dirigible designed to carry passengers or bombs) Graf Zeppelin set of 1933 in used condition, which will run about US$400 for the set of six.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tr/tripolitania.htm (348 words)

	Libya. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the N along the Mediterranean is a narrow upland plateau (highest altitude: c.2,000 ft/610 m) called the Jabal al Akhdar, which includes the cities of Benghazi and Darnah.
		Tripolitania and Cyrenaica had divergent histories for most of the period up to their conquest by the Ottoman Empire in the mid-16th cent.
		In 1934, Tripolitania and Cyrenaica were formally united to form the colony of Libya; Fazzan was administered as part of Tripolitania.
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		Tripolitania was a major exporter of olive oil, as well as being the entrepot for the gold and slaves convoyed to the coast by the Garamantes, while Cyrenaica remained an important source of wines, drugs, and horses.
		Two years later he moved to Tripolitania, where, by the end of the decade, the isolated Byzantine garrisons on the coast were overrun and the Arabs control of the region consolidated.
		In 1934 Tripolitania and Cyrenaica were divided into four provences – Tripoli, Misurata, Benghazi and Derna – which were formally linked as a single colony Libya, thus officially resurrecting the name that Diocletian had applied nearly 1500 years earlier.
	www.rediscover.co.uk /libya_history.html (2099 words)

	History of Libya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A reminder of the desertification of the area is provided by megalithic remains, which occur in great variety of form and in vast numbers in presently arid and uninhabitable wastelands: dolmens and circles like Stonehenge, cairns, underground cells excavated in rock, barrows topped with huge slabs, and step-pyramidlike mounds.
		The attempted Italian colonization of the Ottoman provinces of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica was never wholly successful.
		Counterattacks of British Allied forces from Egypt, later commanded by Montgomery and their successful two-month campaign (Tobruk, Bengasi,), and the counteroffensives under, 1940-43, are part of the wider history of World War II.
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	TRIPOLITANIA FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The region was originally inhabited by Berbers; in the 7th_century_BC Phoenicians settled in colonies along the coast, which later came under the control of Carthage.
		Originally administered as part of a single colony, Tripolitania was its own colony from 26_June 1927 to 3_December 1934, when it was merged into "Libya".
		Beginning with the "Propagation_of_the_Faith" issue in October 1923, Italy issued both its regular and commemorative postage_stamps overprinted "Tripolitania" in various typefaces.
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	A short history of Libya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The west coast comes as Tripolitania in 1510 under Spanish and later Maltese rule, but is conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1551.
		Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and Fezzan are conquered by Italy in 1911, which is recognized by the Ottoman Empire in 1912.
		Between 1918 and 1922 Tripolitania is independent as the Tripolitanian Republic under president Ahmad Tahir al-Murayyid, but in 1922 it annecxed to Italy as the Italian Tripolitania colony.
	www.electionworld.org /history/libya.htm (312 words)

	Libya Italian Rule and Arab Resistance - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		Captured rifles, artillery, and munitions fueled a subsequent Sanusi strike into Tripolitania, but the success of the campaign was compromised by the traditional hostility that existed between the beduins and the nationalists.
		The provinces of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania were treated as separate colonies, and Fezzan was organized as a military territory.
		The different settlements that Italy made in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, however, did illustrate graphically the dissimilarities in the situations of the two provinces as they were perceived by Italian authorities.
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		Tripolitania is a region within the borders of
		In A.D. 40 control of that legion was transferred from the proconsul to an imperial legate, and from that moment Tripolitania became subject to two branches of Roman government: the civil bureaucracy which was centered at Carthage (which had been recolonized by Augustus), and the military division which had its headquarters at Lambaesis in Numidia.
		The coast of Tripolitania is notoriously lacking in suitable harbors, but the reef at Sabratha, later supplemented by an artificial breakwater, created a natural harbor.
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	Libya - GEOGRAPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The southwestern desert, known as Fezzan, was administered separately during both the Italian regime and the federal period of the Libyan monarchy.
		In 1969 the revolutionary government officially changed the regional designation of Tripolitania to Western Libya, of Cyrenaica to Eastern Libya, and of Fezzan to Southern Libya; however, the old names were intimately associated with the history of the area, and during the 1970s they continued to be used frequently.
		The border between Tripolitania and Tunisia is subject to countless crossings by legal and illegal migrants.
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	Libya : Libya's Independence
		Tripolitania leaders objected to the establishment of an elected Preparatory Committee on the ground that an electon in Tripolitania under British military aministration would select representatives likely to be swayed by British influence.
		Mustafa Maizran, the representative of Tripolitania in the Council of Ten, maintained that elections in Tripolitania should not be held and instead, suggested an appointed body.
		Some party leaders in Tripolitania refused to present lists of candidates on the premise that representation on the Committee of Twenty-One should be based on the size of the population of each territory.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dr_ibrahim_ighneiwa/istiklal.htm (2460 words)

	Unasylva - Vol. 6, No. 2 - Sand-dune fixation and afforestation in Libya
		In Tripolitania, one does not find the very special community of Rhus and Pistacia ientiscus, in the form of scrub, which is so common in Cyrenaica on the coastal plain between Tocra and Tolmeita.
		Located between 32° and 33° latitude North, Northern Tripolitania from the standpoint of climate is very similar to Australia, which is located in approximately the same part of the world but at the antipodes.
		A study of Tripolitania's problems of afforestation and sand-dune fixation leads to conclusions which are valid for all arid countries.
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Tripolitania
		Tripolitania (Arabic Ţarābulus; ancient Tripolis), region of northwestern Libya, extending some 800 km (500 mi) along the Mediterranean Sea.
		The Jefara plain stretches along the Mediterranean coast of Tripolitania, west of the Gulf of Sidra.
		The capital city of Tripoli is located here....
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	Libya Islam and the Arabs
		Two years later, he moved into Tripolitania, where, by the end of the decade, the isolated Byzantine garrisons on the coast were overrun and Arab control of the region consolidated.
		Stiff Berber resistance in Tripolitania had slowed the Arab advance to the west, however, and efforts at permanent conquest were resumed only when it became apparent that the Maghrib could be opened up as a theater of operations in the Muslim campaign against the Byzantine Empire.
		In 800 the Abbasid caliph Harun ar Rashid appointed as amir Ibrahim ibn Aghlab, who established a hereditary dynasty at Kairouan that ruled Ifriqiya and Tripolitania as an autonomous state that was subject to the caliph's spiritual jurisdiction and that nominally recognized him as its political suzerain.
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		This is one of a class of large, cylindrical amphorae produced in Tripolitania between the 2nd and 5th centuries AD, almost certainly for transporting olive oil.
		Again, the dating of these forms is far from clear, though the earliest seems to date from the later 1st century AD and there does seem to be some continuity of form from the so-called late Punic forms which come through from the 1st century BC.
		Both in Central Tunisia and in Tripolitania there are indications of massive economic expansion in the second half of the 2nd century AD, which probably maintained at least some of its momentum throughout the 3rd century and into the 4th century AD.
	museums.ncl.ac.uk /roman_africa/TRIPAMPH.HTM (386 words)

	Tripolitania -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The 'Abbasid conquest of Ifriqiyah in 761, which led to the collapse of the Ibadite state in Tunisia and Tripolitania, resulted in the migration of important Ibadite tribes from Tripolitania and southern Tunisia to western Algeria.
		Its three main regions are Cyrenaica (also called the Eastern provinces) on its eastern Mediterranean coast, Tripolitania (the Western provinces) on its western coast, and Fezzan (the Southern provinces), a series of oases in the southwestern desert.
		The name is from the Greek and means “three cities.” In about the 7th century BC the Phoenicians founded their colony of Carthage and built three cities in this region of North Africa: Oea (now Tripoli), Leptis Magna, and Sabratah.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9381178 (663 words)

	Libya - Tripolitania and the Phoenicians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Punic settlements on the Libyan coast included Oea (Tripoli), Labdah (later Leptis Magna), and Sabratah, in an area that came to be known collectively as Tripolis, or "Three Cities" (see fig.
		Fear of a Carthaginian revival, however, led Rome to renew the war, and Carthage was destroyed in 146 B.C. Tripolitania was assigned to Rome's ally, the Berber king of Numidia.
		The Punic language was still spoken in the towns of Tripolitania and by Berber farmers in the coastal countryside in the late Roman period.
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	Attempted salvage of the Tripolitania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Interesting and unique methods are being used by the Western Marine and Cornish Salvage Company to move the big steamer "Tripolitania" from the Loe sand bar in Cornwall, where she has been since Boxing Day.
		One of the illustrations shows these being placed in position, and in another view we see men at work scraping the sand from underneath the ship, and in another men digging a trench through which the vessel will slide on its way to the sea.
		Salving the Tripolitania - shovelling sand away from the sides of the vessel.
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	Tripolitania
		Tripolitania, historic region, W Libya, bordering on the Mediterranean Sea.
		in 146 B.C. Rome captured Tripolitania in 46 B.C., and in the following centuries, as Roman rule was extended far into the south, the region prospered as a trade and agricultural center.
		The Ottoman Turks captured the region in 1553 and it became a stronghold of Barbary pirates.
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		Tripolitania was for a time under Carthaginian control.
		Beginning in the 16th century, both Tripolitania and Cyrenaica nominally became part of the Ottoman Empire.
		Tripolitania was one of the outposts for the Barbary pirates who raided Mediterranean merchant ships or required them to pay tribute, which led to the Tripolitan war with the US that ended tributes in 1805.
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