Crossword clues for tripoli
tripoli
- Libya's capital
- Capital of Libya
- Libyan capital
- Capital on the Mediterranean coast
- Shores in a famous Marine song
- Onetime Barbary state
- One-time pirate stronghold in Libya
- North African city in the lyrics to the "Marines' Hymn"
- Libyan port
- Libyan city
- Libya's largest city
- Land in Marine song
- City that sounds like a shoe stat
- City in Libya — city in Lebanon
- City captured by the Allies in January 1943
- Capital west of the Gulf of Sidra
- Capital south of Sicily
- Capital mentioned in the "Marines' Hymn"
- Barbary Wars participant
- "The Marines' Hymn" city
- "Shores of" place in "The Marines' Hymn"
- "Marines' Hymn" port
- "Marines' Hymn" locale
- "Marines' Hymn" destination
- City taken by the Crusaders, 1109
- Port in "The Marines' Hymn"
- Lebanese port
- "Marines' Hymn" city
- *Wide shoe specification?
- Mediterranean capital
- One of the former Barbary States
- In northwest Libya on the Mediterranean Sea
- Founded by the Phoenicians in the 7th century BC
- The capital and largest city of Libya
- A port in northern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea
- City of Lebanon or Libya
- City in a Marine song
- City in Libya or Lebanon
- Former Barbary State
- African port
- " . . . shores of ___"
- Capital error over centre of Catholicism
- Experience high oil supply from this city?
- Fresh oil needed on journey in African capital
- Libyan city in the "Marines' Hymn"
- African capital
- North African capital
- Capital on the Mediterranean Sea
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tripoli \Trip"o*li\, n. (Min.) An earthy substance originally brought from Tripoli, used in polishing stones and metals. It consists almost wholly of the siliceous shells of diatoms.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
both the Libyan capital and the Lebanese port city represent Greek tri- "three" (see tri-) + polis "town" (see polis). In Libya, Tripolis was the name of a Phoenician colony consisting of Oea (which grew into modern Tripoli), Leptis Magna, and Sabratha. Arabic distinguishes them as Tarabulus ash-sham ("Syrian Tripoli") and Tarabulus al-garb ("Western Tripoli").
Wiktionary
n. (context geology English) A sedimentary rock composed of the shells of diatoms etc
WordNet
n. a weathered and decomposed siliceous limestone; in powdered form it is used in polishing [syn: rottenstone]
the capital and chief port and largest city of Libya; in northwestern Libya on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by the Phoenicians in the 7th century BC [syn: Tarabulus Al-Gharb, capital of Libya]
a port city and commerical center in northwestern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea [syn: Tarabulus Ash-Sham, Trablous]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 561
Land area (2000): 1.401547 sq. miles (3.629990 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.401547 sq. miles (3.629990 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78915
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.805736 N, 92.257580 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50676
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tripoli
Wikipedia
Tripoli (, ; Berber: Ṭrables) is the capital city and the largest city of Libya. Tripoli, with its metropolitan area, has a population of about 1.1 million people. The city is located in the northwestern part of Libya on the edge of the desert, on a point of rocky land projecting into the Mediterranean and forming a bay. Tripoli includes the Port of Tripoli and the country's largest commercial and manufacturing centre. It is also the site of the University of Tripoli. The vast Bab al-Azizia barracks, which includes the former family estate of Muammar Gaddafi, is also located in the city. Colonel Gaddafi largely ruled the country from his residence in this barracks.
Tripoli was founded in the 7th century BC by the Phoenicians, who named it Oea. Due to the city's long history, there are many sites of archaeological significance in Tripoli. "Tripoli" may also refer to the shabiyah (top-level administrative division in the current Libyan system), the Tripoli District.
Tripoli is also known as Tripoli-of-the-West , to distinguish it from its Phoenician sister city Tripoli, Lebanon known in Arabic as Ṭarābulus al-Sham (طرابلس الشام) meaning " Levantine Tripoli". It is affectionately called The Mermaid of the Mediterranean ( ; lit: "bride of the sea"), describing its turquoise waters and its whitewashed buildings. Tripoli is a Greek name that means "Three Cities", introduced in Western European languages through the Italian Tripoli. In it is called Ṭarābulus (, Libyan Arabic: Ṭrābləs , Berber: Ṭrables, from Trípolis). Compare Sanskrit, "tri" meaning the number 3, and "pura" meaning a fortress, castle, city or town. Hence, in Sanskrit " Tripura" also means "Three Cities".
Tripoli is the capital of Libya.
Tripoli or Tripolis may also refer to:
- Redirect Tripoli, Lebanon
Tripoli is a 1950 American adventure film directed by Will Price and written by Winston Miller. The film is a fictionalized account of the Battle of Derna and stars John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Howard Da Silva, Phillip Reed, Grant Withers, Lowell Gilmore and Connie Gilchrist. The film was released on November 9, 1950, by Paramount Pictures.
Usage examples of "tripoli".
Egypt within a few weeks a long-range bomber force capable of having any appreciable effect on Tripoli.
The Christians were broken by his attack, and slaughtered in their flight, as far as the river of Tripoli.
At a meeting with Ambassador Abdrahaman, Adams and Jefferson were told that peace with Tripoli would cost 30,000 guineas for his employers, as His Excellency put it, plus 3,000 pounds sterling for himself.
Plateau of Chasms, loomed from the desert, a long ribbon of blue stone running three hundred miles from Algeria into the kingdom of Tripoli, skirting the edge of the Ahaggar Mountains and the lush oases that dotted the southern desert.
PLO, I decided to go up to Tripoli, in north Lebanon, where the combined forces of Abu Musa and Syrian-sponsored Palestinian leader Ahmed Jebril had just routed Arafat from his last stronghold, the Badawi refugee camp.
Alexandria, Bengasi, Tripoli, Tunis and Algiers, passed the Rock of Gibraltar and turned north up the coast of Portugal.
Although it was no doubt tempting to try to push on from Benghazi to Tripoli, and we may still use considerable forces in this direction, we have felt it our duty to stand with the Greeks, who have declared to us their resolve, even alone, to resist the German invader.
Libyan peoples, and most of all by the Garamantes who lived to the west of them, south of the gulf of Tripoli, in what is now the Fezzan.
I am paying sixty per cent, at Beiroot, Tripoli, Latakia, and every accursed town of the coast at this moment.
The ports of Syria and Alexandria were now strictly blockaded, and in a short time after, Tripoli, Tortosa, and Latakia were evacuated by their Egyptian garrisons, St.
German advance in the Balkans had synchronized with attempts to disturb us on the western borders of Egypt by German and Turkish intrigues with the Senussi federation of Moslem tribes, and in Tripoli, which the Italians had never succeeded in completely subjugating.
The purple-assed Tripoli baboons had been brought to the Island by pirates in the 17th century.
Beirut, Tripoli, Baghdad, out of Islamabad and Karachi, out of Bahrain, Muscat, Kuwait and Dubai, the wives and children of businessmen and diplomats, causing room shortages in Athens hotels, adding stories, new stories all the time.
CIA says they are being held incommunicado in Tripoli while Qaddafi decides what to do with them.
Drake stopped at Alexandria, Bengasi, Tripoli, Tunis and Algiers, passed the Rock of Gibraltar and turned north up the coast of Portugal.