William of Tripoli (fl. 1254–1273) was a Dominican friar active as a missionary and papal nuncio in the Holy Land. He wrote two works about Islam, towards...
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The County of Tripoli (1102–1289) was one of the Crusader states. It was founded in the Levant in the modern-day region of Tripoli, northern Lebanon and...
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siege of Tripoli lasted from 1102 until 12 July 1109. It took place on the site of the present day Lebanese city of Tripoli, in the aftermath of the First...
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Tripoli (/ˈtrɪpəli/; Arabic: طرابلس الغرب, romanized: Ṭarābulus al-Gharb, lit. 'Western Tripoli') is the capital and largest city of Libya, with a population...
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Situated 81 km (50 mi) north of the capital Beirut, it is the capital of the North Governorate and the Tripoli District. Tripoli overlooks the eastern Mediterranean...
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1187) was count of Tripoli from 1152 to 1187. He was a minor when Nizari Assassins murdered his father, Raymond II of Tripoli. Baldwin III of Jerusalem, who...
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The Treaty of Tripoli (Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary) was signed in...
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Raymond of Saint-Gilles (c. 1041 – 28 February 1105), also called Raymond IV of Toulouse or Raymond I of Tripoli, was the count of Toulouse, duke of Narbonne...
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The count of Tripoli was the ruler of the County of Tripoli, a crusader state from 1102 through to 1289. Of the four major crusader states in the Levant...
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Bertrand of Toulouse (or Bertrand of Tripoli) (died 1112) was count of Toulouse, and was the first count of Tripoli to rule in Tripoli itself. Bertrand...
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Raimundus; c. 1116 – 1152) was count of Tripoli from 1137 to 1152. He succeeded his father, Pons, Count of Tripoli, who was killed during a campaign that...
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the count of Tripoli and nominal prince of Antioch from 1275 to his death. The only part left of the Principality of Antioch was the port of Latakia. He...
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of Jerusalem (c. 1110 – c. 1164) was a countess consort of Tripoli through her marriage to Raymond II of Tripoli, and regent of the County of Tripoli...
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married William of Montferrat in 1176, but William died the next year. In 1180, in order to forestall a coup by Count Raymond III of Tripoli and Prince...
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The Second Battle of Tripoli Harbor was a naval action that occurred during the American naval blockade which took place in Tripoli Harbor on July 14...
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First Barbary War (redirect from Shores of Tripoli)
provinces of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and the independent Sultanate of Morocco under the Alaouite dynasty (the Barbary Coast) were the scourge of the Mediterranean...
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regent of the County of Tripoli beginning in 1105. He was the son of Count William I of Cerdanya and Sança, daughter of Count Ramon Berenguer I of Barcelona...
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Orthodox prelates of Peloponnese were incarcerated inside the city, and five of them died before the fall. The capture of the city of Tripolis had a salutary...
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and Tripoli (1801–1805). He led the first foreign United States military victory at the Battle of Derne by capturing the Tripoli subject city of Derne...
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son of William IX of Aquitaine, from whom descended the last princes of Antioch and counts of Tripoli. 1163–1201: Bohemond III († 1201), prince of Antioch...
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the matter of Sibylla's marriage became urgent. The regent, Count Raymond III of Tripoli, arranged for her to marry William Longsword of Montferrat in...
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Pons (c. 1098 – 25 March 1137) was count of Tripoli from 1112 to 1137. He was a minor when his father, Bertrand, died in 1112. He swore fealty to the Byzantine...
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dell'Oriente francescano, Volume 2, edited by Girolamo Golubovich. William of Tripoli. William of Tripoli (fl. 1254–1273), a Dominican friar active as a missionary...
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The contemporary chronicler William of Newburgh wrote that Baldwin was poisoned by his regent, Raymond of Tripoli, but William was generally hostile to the...
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of Antioch, also known as Bohemond the One-Eyed (French: Bohémond le Borgne; c. 1175 – 1233), was Count of Tripoli from 1187 to 1233, and Prince of Antioch...
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672 O'Meara, Thomas (2008). "The Theology and Times of William of Tripoli, O.P.: A Different View of Islam". Theological Studies. 69 (1): 80–98 Theophilus...
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In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Retrieved 23 September 2020. The city of Regensburg in Bavaria. Nicholas of Lynn. His...
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Melisende of Tripoli (fl. around 1160) was the daughter of Hodierna of Tripoli and Raymond II, count of Tripoli. Melisende was named for her aunt, Melisende...
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vassal of his brother, and indirectly as a rear-vassal of the king, from whom Baldwin held Ramla. Baldwin supported Raymond III of Tripoli over Miles of Plancy...
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the De statu saracenorum of William of Tripoli, may have been requested and written even before Gregory was elected pope. William, however, advised sending...
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