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19 unusual facts about Tripoli


481st Tactical Fighter Squadron

Just eleven days after this mission, one of the pilots, 1st Lt. Donald D. Watson of Tripoli, Wisconsin, was killed on 31 July while flying another air interdiction mission.

Alex Andrianopoulos

Andrianopoulos was born in Tselepakou in Tripoli, Greece, and was educated in the St Albans area of Victoria, his family having migrated to Australia in 1965.

Andrea Doria

He returned to Genoa for good in 1555, and being very old and infirm, he gave over the command of the galleys to his great-nephew Giovanni Andrea Doria, the son of Giannettino Doria, who conducted an expedition against Tripoli, but proved even more unsuccessful than his great-uncle had been at Algiers, barely escaping with his life after losing the Battle of Djerba against the Turkish fleet of Piyale Pasha and Turgut Reis.

Andrew Charles Stewart

To add insult to injury, the day on which he finally left Tripoli and the Service was an appallingly wet one.

Battle of Palmyra

It was tasked with advancing northwest to defeat the Vichy French garrison at Palmyra and secure the oil pipeline from Haditha in Iraq to Tripoli on the Lebanon coast.

Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta

In regard to the Mediterranean he established an Italo-French agreement by which France tacitly undertook to leave Italy a free hand in Tripoli, and Italy not to interfere with French policy in the interior of Morocco; and, in regard to the Adriatic, he came to an understanding with Austria guaranteeing the status quo in Albania.

Frans Said

His first position was as Special Projects Manager in Marsa El Bregha (with Exxon); and later, as consultant and advisor with the National Oil Corporation and other oil companies in Tripoli.

G. Yafit

Greenberg was born in Bnei Brak in 1951 to a traditionalist Jewish family who had immigrated from Tripoli in Libya, and was one of five daughters.

Gasr Bu Hadi

By 1 August the only Tripolitanian towns still held by the Italians were Homs, Misrata Marina, Tagiura and Tripoli itself, where there were 40,000 troops to man the machine gun nests and the new wall circling the outer suburbs.

The Garian garrison retired to Azizia and was then forced to withdraw hastily towards Tripoli.

Hurshid Pasha

In November 1820, he was named mora valisi, governor of the Morea Eyalet (the Peloponnese), with seat at Tripoli and serasker of the expedition against the rebellious Ali Pasha of Yanina.

Lebanese general election, 1968 in Tripoli City

Voting to elect five members of the Lebanese parliament took place in Tripoli City in 1968, part of the national general election of that year (the rural areas of Tripoli District had a separate constituency).

Mustapha Allouch

Under the Future Movement Party of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Allouch stood for election as a member of parliament in 2005 for the constituency of Tripoli and subsequently won that year.

Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways

SPAP also acquired the line between Myloi (near Argos) and Kalamata via Tripoli, from the bankrupt Southern Greece Railways (Sidirodromoi Mesimbrinis Ellados).

Presley O'Bannon

In recognition of his bravery, he was presented a sword for his part in attempting to restore Prince Hamet Karamanli to his throne at Tripoli.

Rossana Podestà

Podesta was born in Tripoli, in the Italian colony of Libya, where she spent her first years and later moved to Rome after World War II.

Sharon Burley

Sharon Kay Burley Sullivan (born 8 May 1956 in Tripoli, Libya) is an Australian figure skater who completed in ladies singles.

Tripoli, Greece

George Peponis, medical practitioner, sports administrator and former captain of the Australian Rugby League team was born in the town in 1953

Trypillia

The name of Trypillia means "three fields" in Slavic languages and is unrelated to Tripoli.


2011 Nafusa Mountains campaign

Gharyan was seen as a strategic town, because it was the largest in the Nafusa Mountains, a direct gateway to the Jabal al Gharbi District from Tripoli and was part of the defence ring loyalist forces were establishing around the capital.

Afriqiyah Airways

--Last night from 20 December--> the logo was unveiled at the Rixos Al Nasr hotel in Tripoli.

Ali Rıza Seyfi

He attended the Kasımpaşa Naval Elementary School and served at various posts in Basra, with the fleet in the Dardanelles, at the Naval Science Commission and at Tripoli as a naval officer after 1892.

André Liohn

In 2012, with fellow photographers Christopher Morris, Jehad Nga, Bryan Denton, Lynsey Addario, Eric Bouvet and Finbarr O'Reilly, he created the project Almost Dawn in Libya, four photo exhibits in the main Libyan cities of Tripoli, Benghazi, Misurata and Zintan.

Argos

Argos has a railway station on the Kalamata - Tripoli - Corinth line of the Hellenic Railways Organisation, and a junior soccer team.

Arthur Fitzsimons

His coaching career took him to Libya where he spent five and a half years in Tripoli in the 60s before Muammar Gaddafi appeared on the scene and Fitzsimons was advised to leave.

Battle of Kasserine Pass

Rommel had planned for this eventuality, switching his line of supply to Tunis and intending to block the southern approach to Tunisia from Tripoli by occupying an extensive set of defensive works known as the Mareth Line, which the French had constructed in order to fend off an Italian attack from Libya.

Dimitra, Arcadia

It is 3 km southeast of Kontovazaina, 7 km northwest of Tropaia, 5 km northwest of the Ladon Lake dam and 50 km northwest of Tripoli.

George Riashi

George Riashi (Qaa el Reem, near Zahlé, Lebanon on November 25, 1933 – October 28, 2012) was the Greek Melkite Catholic bishop of Tripoli and all North Lebanon.

Henry Teonge

The diary provides lively reports of two voyages to the Mediterranean and the Levant, including a raid on a fleet of Barbary corsairs at Tripoli in 1675, under the command of Sir John Narborough.

Jeremy Bash

He was interviewed by The New York Times in regard to an October 5, 2013 U.S. Special Operations Forces raid in Tripoli, Libya that resulted in the capture of Abu Anas al-Libi, a terrorist target who was indicted in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

Khamis Gaddafi

On 29 August, it was reported that anti-Gaddafi fighters 60 km south of Tripoli claimed that a NATO Apache helicopter had fired on Khamis Gaddafi's Toyota Land Cruiser, destroying the vehicle.

Lamtuna

The Banu Ghaniya, successors of this dynasty in Tripoli and the Nafusa Mountains and governors of the Spanish Balearic Islands until about the middle of the 13th century, originated from this tribe as well.

Legend of the Lost

The lost city of Timgad referred to in the film was actually the Leptis Magna ruins, a Roman city dating back to the 7th century B.C. near Tripoli, in northwest Libya, while "Timbuktu" was actually in Zliten, Libya.

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 (LN 144) was a regularly scheduled flight from Tripoli to Cairo via Benghazi.

Operated with a Boeing 727-224, registration 5A-DAH, Flight 114 was an international scheduled TripoliBenghaziCairo passenger service.

Marrack Goulding

In 1968, he was once more posted overseas, as the Head of Chancery of the British Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, and later of the Embassy in Cairo, Egypt.

Matthew VanDyke

In February, the Libyan civil war began, and VanDyke was in contact with several of his Libyan friends in Tripoli, Libya via email and Facebook.

Metropolitan Ephraim Kyriakos

Ephraim (Kyriakos) is the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Tripoli, al-Koura and Dependencies of the Church of Antioch.

Michael O'Moore Creagh

The small port of Bardia fell to advancing British, Australian and Indian forces in the WDF under the command of General Sir Richard O'Connor, followed as the new year of 1941 came in, by Tobruk as the Italians retreated along the Via Balbia, the metallised coastal road that led back to Benghazi and Tripoli.

Michel Temer

In a TV interview for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (May 8, 2010), Temer indicated that his family originates from the town of Btaaboura in Koura District, neighboring the city of Tripoli in Northern Lebanon.

Morocco–Turkey relations

At the same time, the Spanish had been establishing numerous bases in Northern Africa, since 1496: Melilla (1496), Mers-el-Kebir (1505), Oran (1509), Bougie (1510), Tripoli (1510), then Algiers, Shershell, Dellys and Tenes.

Museum of Lebanese Prehistory

The single showroom exhibition gave a dissection of the scene showing sites such as Tripoli, Jbeil, Tabarja, the bay of Jounieh, Antelias and memorable caves, Ras Beirut and Naam.

Omar Agha

The Congress of Vienna, which addressed the problem of Christian slaves from Barbary piracy, charged the United Kingdom to negotiate with the Dey of Algiers and the Beys of Tunis and Tripoli.

Order of Katonga

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni decorated the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on 6 April 2004 in Tripoli, honouring him for his contribution to the National Resistance Army (NRA) bush struggle that liberated Uganda from dictatorship, adding that Colonel Gaddaffi has always been at the forefront of the liberation of Africa and unification of the continent.

Ottoman Algeria

From 1496, the Spanish conquered numerous possessions on the North African coast, which had been captured since 1496: Melilla (1496), Mers-el-Kebir (1505), Oran (1509), Bougie (1510), Tripoli (1510), Algiers, Shershell, Dellys, Tenes.

Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto

Navarro personally led the Spanish forces during the conquest of Bougie (Béjaïa), Algiers, Tunis, Tlemcen, and Tripoli in 1510.

Rantoul National Aviation Center

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Rantoul National Aviation Center is assigned TIP by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned TIP to Tripoli International Airport in Tripoli, Libya).

Rasheed al Deasy

He then moved to Tripoli club Wahda in the summer of 2005, spending three years there before moving to cross-city rivals Shat.

Reginald of Sidon

To boost the hope of military support from his cousin Henry II of England and to reduce Raymond of Tripoli's influence, in 1180 Baldwin had married his widowed sister Sibylla to a Poitevin noble, Guy of Lusignan, a vassal of the Angevins, whose older brother Amalric had already established himself at court.

Sam Tripoli

Tripoli is known for his wild, uncensored material, aversion to political correctness, sexual content, libertarian views, and desire to be a crimefighter.

Smaranda Brăescu

In 1932, in her Miles Hawk, she established the record crossing the Mediterranean Sea between Rome and Tripoli (1100 km in 6 hours and 10 minutes).

Temples of the Beqaa Valley

Thirdly a group in the area west of a line drawn along the ridge of Mount Lebanon that includes Makam Er-Rab, Sfire, Kasr Naous, Amyioun, Bziza, Batroun, Edde, Mashnaka, Yanuh, Afka, Kalaat Fakra, Kalaa, Sarba, Antoura, Deir el-Kalaa, Shheem and the coastal plains of Beirut, Byblos, Sidon, Tripoli, Lebanon and Tyre.

Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca

Article XII-The Sublime Porte promises to use its power and influence to assist the Court of Russia when the court has the intention of making any commercial treaty with the regencies of Africa (Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, etc.).

Tripoli air crash

Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 - a crash on approach to Tripoli International Airport in 2010

Water supply and sanitation in Lebanon

The European Investment Bank financed a wastewater treatment plant in Tripoli and water treatment facilities in the touristic Keserwan District.

Zawiyat Janzur

For the town near Tripoli, see Janzur.