city Tripoli (Libya): All Data

Tripoli (Libya) is a city in Libya. This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.

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Tripoli: Chronology of Mentions

Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.

579 AD
Capital of Kingdom of Cabaon
1551 AD
Mentioned in Event: Conquests of Suleiman I (Ottoman)
1551 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Tripoli (1551)
1609 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Eyalet of Trablusgarp, part of Ottoman Empire
1712 AD
Capital of Karamanli dynasty
1797 AD
Mentioned in: Action of 16 May 1797
1802 AD
Mentioned in: First Battle of Tripoli Harbor, part of First Barbary War
1803 AD
Mentioned in: Action of 22 June 1803, part of First Barbary War
1911 AD
Mentioned in Event: Libyan Front
1911 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Tripoli (1911), part of Italo-Turkish War
1912 AD
Mentioned in Event: Libyan Front
1912 AD
Mentioned in Event: Treaty of Lausanne (1912)
1912 AD
Capital of Italian Tripolitania
1923 AD
Mentioned in Event: Italian military operations in Tripolitania
1934 AD
Capital of Libya (Italy)
1938 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Province of Tripoli, part of Libya (Italy)
1943 AD
Mentioned in Event: Battle of El-Agheila
1943 AD
Mentioned in Event: World War II (North African Theatre)
1943 AD
Capital of British Military Administration of Libya
1951 AD
Capital of Kingdom of Libya
1969 AD
Capital of Libyan Arab Republic
1977 AD
Capital of Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
2011 AD
Mentioned in Event: Libyan Civil War (2011)
2011 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Tripoli (2011), part of Libyan Civil War (2011)
2012 AD
Mentioned in Event: Libyan Civil War (2014-present)
2014 AD
Mentioned in Event: First Phase (Tobruk/GNA/Islamists/IS)
2016 AD
Mentioned in Event: Libyan Civil War (2014-present)
2016 AD
Capital of Government of National Accord
2018 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Tripoli (2018), part of Libyan Civil War (2014-present)
2021 AD
Capital of State of Libya
2025 AD
Mentioned in: 2025 Tripoli clashes, part of Libyan Civil War (2014-present)
2025 AD
Subdivision Capital of the District of Tripoli District, part of State of Libya