tripoli

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1. tripoli - Noun

2. Tripoli - Proper noun

Meaning

An earthy substance originally brought from Tripoli, used in polishing stones and metals. It consists almost wholly of the siliceous shells of diatoms.

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1936 Nuvolari had a big accident in May during practice for the Tripoli Grand Prix and it is alleged that he broke some vertebrae. Source: Internet

Amalric rushed to take up the regency of Antioch and Tripoli and secured Bohemund's ransom in 1165 (Raymond remained in captivity until 1173). Source: Internet

Allen (1905), p. 199. Constitution was ordered to Malta on the 11th for repairs, and while en route captured two Greek vessels attempting to deliver wheat into Tripoli. Source: Internet

Amnesty International, Turkey has been the main supplier of weapons to Tripoli, while the United Arab Emirates has supplied Haftar’s Libyan National Army. Source: Internet

Allouki last saw action when Syria’s civil war briefly spilled over into Tripoli between 2011-2014, and his Sunni fighters took on members of the city’s small Alawite community, coreligionists with President Assad. Source: Internet

Apuleius, Apology, 72. On his way there he was taken ill at the town of Oea (modern-day Tripoli ) and was hospitably received into the house of Sicinius Pontianus, with whom he had been friends when he had studied in Athens. Source: Internet

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