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Details for Tripoli

Full name: Tripoli

This person or thing (agent) has been used 25 times within our collections systems.

As a maker of objects: 25 times.

Type of agent

Creator

Created

13yrs ago

Closely matched 3rd party resources

http://nomisma.org/id/tarabulus_libya
http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7002314
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3579
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tripoli
http://sws.geonames.org/2210247
http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668394

Getty TGN Information

Held by Seleucids and Romans, taken by Muslims 638; taken by Crusaders after 5-year siege; captured by Mamelukes 1289 and destroyed; under Ottoman rule until taken by British in 1918; occupied by British and Free French in 1941.

Nomisma Definition

Tripoli (Arabic: طرابلس‎, Ṭarābulus; Berber: Ṭrables) is the de jure capital city and the largest city of Libya. Tripoli, with its metropolitan area, has a population of about 1.1 million people.[2] 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.

Labels in other languages sourced via Nomisma

Tarabulus, Libya
طرابلس غرب
Tripolis
Tripoli
Tripoli
Trípoli
Tripoli
Tripoli
Tripoli
ትሪፖሊ

Concept type

Mint

Map via Nomisma

Connected records

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Agent details for Tripoli" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/agent/agent-134803 Accessed: 2024-11-28 19:07:47

Citation for Wikipedia

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{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/agent/agent-134803|title=Agent details for Tripoli|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-28 19:07:47|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/agents/agent-134803

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