15 Facts About Tripoli Libya

Tripoli Libya was founded in the 7th century BC by the Phoenicians, who gave it the Libyco-Berber name before passing into the hands of the Greek rulers of Cyrenaica as Oea.

Tripoli Libya's body was taken from Malta, where he had fallen during the Ottoman siege of the island, to a tomb in the Sidi Darghut Mosque which he had established close to his palace in Tripoli.

The Pashas of Tripoli Libya were expected to pay a regular tributary tax to the Sultan but were in all other aspects rulers of an independent kingdom.

Ottoman province of Tripoli Libya lay along the southern shore of the Mediterranean between Tunisia in the west and Egypt in the east.

In 1815, in consequence of further outrages and due to the humiliation of the earlier defeat, Captains Bainbridge and Stephen Decatur, at the head of an American squadron, again visited Tripoli Libya and forced the pasha to comply with the demands of the United States.

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Italy had long claimed that Tripoli Libya fell within its zone of influence and that Italy had the right to preserve order within the state.

Tripoli Libya underwent a huge architectural and urbanistic improvement under Italian rule: the first thing the Italians did was to create in the early 1920s a sewage system and a modern hospital.

The so-called Fiera internazionale di Tripoli was one of the main international "Fairs" in the colonial world in the 1930s, and was internationally promoted together with the Tripoli Grand Prix as a showcase of Italian Libya.

Tripoli Libya was then governed by the British until independence in 1951.

Tripoli Libya has a hot semi-arid climate with hot and dry, prolonged summers and relatively wet mild winters.

The Tripoli Libya Zoo, located south of the city center, is a large reserve of plants, trees and open green spaces and was the country's biggest zoo.

Since the lifting of sanctions against Libya in 1999 and again in 2003, Tripoli has seen a rise in foreign investment as well as an increase in tourism.

Largest university in Tripoli Libya, the University of Tripoli Libya, is a public university providing free education to the city's inhabitants.

Tripoli Libya hosted the final games of the official 2009 African Basketball Championship.

Tripoli Libya is the interim destination of a railway from Sirte under construction in 2007.