Tripoli, Lebanon

Tripoli (Modren Staundart Arabic: طرابلس , an   ,  Tripolis) is a ceety in Lebanon. Situatit north o Batroun an the cape o Lithoprosopon, Tripoli is the caipital o the North Govrenorate an the Tripoli Destrict (in Lebanon the destricts are subunits o govrenorates). The ceety is locatit 85 km north o the caipital Beirut, an is the eastmaist port o Lebanon.

In auncient times, it wis the centre o a Phoenician confederation which includit Tyre, Sidon an Arados, hence the name Tripoli, meanin "triple ceety" in Greek. Later, it wis controlled successively bi the Assyrian Empire, Persian Empire, Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Caliphate, the Seljuk Empire, Crusader States, the Mamluks, the Ottoman Empire an Fraunce. The Crusaders established the Coonty o Tripoli thare in the twalt century.

Tripoli is the day the seicont-lairgest ceety an seicont-lairgest port in Lebanon, wi approximately 500,000 indwallers, owerwhelmingly Sunni Muslims (approximately 80%), alang wi a sma minority o Orthodox an Maronite Christians, an a sma minority o Alawite Muslims.

The ceety borders El Mina, the port o the Tripoli Destrict, which it is geographically conjoined wi tae form the greater Tripoli conurbation.

Internaitional  relations

Twin touns – Sister ceeties
Tripoli is twinned  wi:
 Naples, Italy
 Damascus, Sirie
 Larnaca, Cyprus
 Faro, Portugal

References

Category:Tripoli, Lebanon
Category:Populatit places in the North Govrenorate
Category:Populatit coastal places in Lebanon
Category:Mediterranean port ceeties an touns in Lebanon
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Category:Phoenicie colonies
Category:Hellenistic colonies
Category:Crusades