Tripoli, 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.

Tripoli طرابلس Ṭarābulus
Tripoli
Coordinates: 34°26′N 35°51′E / 34.433°N 35.850°E / 34.433; 35.850
Govrenment
• Mayor	Eng. Nader al-Ghazal
Area
• City	14 km2 (5 sq mi)
• Metro	41 km2 (16 sq mi)
Population
• City	192,572
• Metro	530,000
Time zone	+2
• Summer (DST)	+3
Website	tripoli-city.org

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.

Twin touns – Sister ceeties

Tripoli is twinned wi:

•   Naples, Italy
•   Damascus, Sirie
•   Larnaca, Cyprus
•   Faro, Portugal