Tripoli, a province (since 1835) of Turkey, in North Africa, most easterly of the Barbary States; stretches northwards from the Libyan Desert, lies between Tunis (W.) and Fezzan (E.), with which latter, as also with Barca, it is politically united; carries on a brisk caravan trade with Central Africa; capital, Tripoli (20), situated on a spit of rocky land jutting into the Mediterranean; surrounded by high walls, and Moorish in appearance.
Population (circa 1900) given as 1,000,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Tripoli * Triptolemus