1762: tripoli's Oct 11, 2019

Tripoli may be the capital of Libya, but it is also the name of one of the largest Lebanese cities, a Greek City, a Turkish city, sort of. As it happens, the place in Turkey baring the name, with two more historically, were named by the Greeks, and the only modern Greek city with the name (though many more existed in Ancient Greece) was named during Ottoman rule. In the other two, likely more famous cities, were both named thousands of years ago when they were respectively under Greek rule; still they both have the same name in English, and also Arabic, طرابلس‎ (Ṭarābulus).

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