Tripoli is located in the north-western part of Libya on the edge of the desert, on a point of rocky land that projects into the Mediterranean and forms a bay. The city is known as Tarabulus al-Gharb (West) to distinguish it from its Phoenician sister city Tripoli in Lebanon which is known in Arabic as Tarabulus al-Sham.
Braun, Klaus, and Jacqueline Passon, eds. Across the Sahara: tracks, trade and cross-cultural exchange in Libya. Springer Nature, 2020.
