Tripoli (disambiguation)

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Tripoli or Tripolis (Τρίπολις) is Greek for 'three cities'.

It can refer to:

Cities called Tripoli or Tripolis

• Tripoli, the capital of Libya
• Tripoli, Lebanon, a city in Lebanon
• Tripoli, Greece, the capital of Arcadia Prefecture, Peloponnesus, Greece.
• Tripoli, Pella, a village in Pella Prefecture, Greece.
• Tripolis (Pontus), modern Tirebolu, Turkey
• Tripolis (Thessaly) or Tripolis Larisaia, an ancient city
• Tripolis (Bithynia), an ancient city
• Tripolis (Phrygia), an ancient city, sometimes attached to Caria or Lydia); near modern Yenicekent, Denizli Province, Turkey

Modern cities called Tripoli

• Tripoli, Iowa, USA
• Tripoli, New York, USA, a village
• Tripoli, Wisconsin, USA
• New Tripoli, Pennsylvania, USA

Regions

• Tripolitania, in modern Libya, corresponding to the ancient Tripolis (region of Africa)
• County of Tripoli, one of the medieval Crusader states, in the ancient Tripolis (region of Phoenicia)
• Tripolis (region of Arcadia), an ancient region
• Tripolis (region of Laconia), an ancient region
• Tripolis (region of Thessaly), an ancient region

Other

• Treaty of Tripoli
• Rotten stone, a polishing compound also known by the name of Tripoli.
• A song by the Matthew Good Band from their album The Audio of Being
• The Tripoli Rocketry Association
• Tripoli, a card game, often spelled "Tripoley"
• A song by Pinback from their album This is a Pinback CD

Rivers

• the ancient name of the river which emptied into the Black Sea at Tripolis (Pontus)

[edit] See also

• Siege of Tripoli (disambiguation)