Definition for Tripoli

Tripoli, proper n. [Fr. < Gk treis, three + polis, town.]

Capital city of Libya; North African battle site; nineteenth-century stronghold of pirates and Turks in the Barbary States; place of American naval victory in the Mediterranean region (1801-1805); [fig.] freedom; liberty; abolishment of slavery; (see ED letters).

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