How do you use Tripolitania in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Tripolitania in a sentence
Tripolitania meaning
A historic region and former province in western Libya, centered around the coastal city of Tripoli.
Using Tripolitania
- The main meaning on this page is: A historic region and former province in western Libya, centered around the coastal city of Tripoli.
- In the example corpus, tripolitania often appears in combinations such as: of tripolitania, tripolitania and, ruled tripolitania.
Context around Tripolitania
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tripolitania
- In this selection, "tripolitania" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ruled, reestablished, years, riots and remained stand out and add context to how "tripolitania" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1832 reestablished tripolitania s independence and 400 years tripolitania and cyrenaica. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tripolitania" sits close to words such as aami, abada and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tripolitania
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Unlike Cyrenaica, Tripolitania does not extend southward into the desert. (10 words)
For the next hundred years, a series of deys effectively ruled Tripolitania. (12 words)
However, Hamet's brother Yusuf (r. 1795–1832) reestablished Tripolitania's independence. (12 words)
These early mentions show that couscous spread rapidly, but generally that couscous was common from Tripolitania to the west, while from Cyrenaica to the east the main cuisine was Egyptian, with couscous as an occasional dish. (36 words)
The museum includes general information about the Holocaust as well as plaques on lesser-known stories like the Tripolitania riots and Dutch resistance fighter Willem Arondéus; some of its information was pulled directly from Wikipedia. (35 words)
Other groups include the Riffians of northern Morocco, the Chaoui people of eastern Algeria, the Chenouas in western Algeria, the Berbers of Tripolitania and the Tuaregs of the Sahara scattered through several countries. (33 words)
Example sentences (13)
The museum includes general information about the Holocaust as well as plaques on lesser-known stories like the Tripolitania riots and Dutch resistance fighter Willem Arondéus; some of its information was pulled directly from Wikipedia.
Coastal oases alternate with sandy areas and lagoons along the shores of Tripolitania for more than convert.
For the next hundred years, a series of deys effectively ruled Tripolitania.
For the next hundred years, a series of deys effectively ruled Tripolitania, some for only a few weeks, and at various times the dey was also pasha-regent.
However, Hamet's brother Yusuf (r. 1795–1832) reestablished Tripolitania's independence.
Merchants and artisans from many parts of the Roman world established themselves in North Africa, but the character of the cities of Tripolitania remained decidedly Punic and, in Cyrenaica, Greek.
Other groups include the Riffians of northern Morocco, the Chaoui people of eastern Algeria, the Chenouas in western Algeria, the Berbers of Tripolitania and the Tuaregs of the Sahara scattered through several countries.
Regardless, for more than 400 years Tripolitania and Cyrenaica were part of a cosmopolitan state whose citizens shared a common language, legal system, and Roman identity.
The border between Tripolitania and Tunisia is subject to countless crossings by legal and illegal migrants.
These early mentions show that couscous spread rapidly, but generally that couscous was common from Tripolitania to the west, while from Cyrenaica to the east the main cuisine was Egyptian, with couscous as an occasional dish.
To its west, the area known as Tripolitania has characteristics and a history similar to those of nearby Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Unlike Cyrenaica, Tripolitania does not extend southward into the desert.
Zirid rule in Tripolitania was short-lived though, and already in 1001 the Berbers of the Banu Khazrun broke away.
Common combinations with tripolitania
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of tripolitania 3×
- tripolitania and 3×
- ruled tripolitania 2×