Tarabulus al-Gharb

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Tarabulus al-Gharb is the Arabic name for Tripoli, the capital and largest city of Libya on the Mediterranean coast.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf capital city
city
coastal city
ancientName Oea
approximateFoundationCentury 7th century BC
callingCode +218
capitalOf Libya
climate hot-summer Mediterranean climate
coordinates 32.8872°N 13.1913°E
country Libya
drainageBasin Mediterranean Sea
elevation 0–81 metres
foundedBy Phoenician civilization
surface form: Phoenicians
hasLandmark Gurgi Mosque
Karamanli Mosque
Martyrs' Square
surface form: Martyrs’ Square

Red Castle Museum
hasNameInArabic Tripoli
surface form: طرابلس الغرب
hasNameInEnglish Tripoli
hasPort Port of Tripoli (Lebanon)
surface form: Port of Tripoli
historicalRegion Tripolitania
isCapitalOf Libya
surface form: State of Libya
isPolitical seat of Libya’s central government
KöppenClimateClassification Csa
largestCityOf Libya
locatedIn North Africa
Tripoli
surface form: Tripoli District

Tripolitania
locatedOn Mediterranean Sea
majorDenomination Sunni Islam
majorReligion Islam
officialLanguage Arabic
partOf Libyan Coastal Plain
populationApproximate 1.1 million
populationEstimateYear 2019
servedBy Mitiga International Airport
Tripoli International Airport
timeZone Eastern European Time
UTC+2
urbanAgglomerationPopulationApproximate over 2 million
vehicleRegistrationCode TR
wasCapitalOf Libya
surface form: Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Libya
surface form: Kingdom of Libya

Libya
surface form: Libyan Arab Republic
wasConqueredBy Rashidun Caliphate
wasPartOf Abbasid Caliphate
Byzantine Empire
Carthaginian Empire
Italian Libya
Ottoman Empire
Roman Empire
Umayyad Caliphate

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tripoli alternativeName Tarabulus al-Gharb