Tripoli (Syria)
- Ancient name
- Tripolis
- Modern name
- Tripoli
- Modern country
- Lebanon
- Coordinates
- 34.45, 35.81
Tripoli, now the second-largest city in Lebanon, was in the later Middle Ages a provincial capital of the six kingdoms in Mamluk Syria. It tends to appears in premodern maps as Tripoli-di-Soria, Tripoli-in-Syria, to distinguish it from Tripoli (Libya) and its neighbor Tripoli Vecchio. See also Beirut (Baruti-di-Soria). Campbell #1503.
The toponym Tripoli (Syria) appears in La Sfera in the following places:
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Map of the location P147
Variant spellings of Tripoli (Syria) in Sfera manuscripts
| Variant | Manuscripts |
|---|---|
| [...]li | Par1 |
| tiripoli | Ashb3 |
| trapoli | Fn12 |
| tripoli | Bal, Cors2, Fn3, Fn6, Fn9, He2, He3, Laur3, Laur5, ME2, Magl2, Magl4, Marc1, Med3, NYPL3, Pad1, Pal5, Pal8, Per2, Pnc5, Ricc12, Ricc15, Wie1 |
| Tripoli | Clas2, Cs1, Fo, Morg, NB, Par3, Parm2, Ricc8 |
| tripoli de soria | Tre |
| tripoli di soria | Tre |
| Tripoli disoria | Luc2, Med1 |
| tripolji | Con4 |
| Tripuli | Con3 |
| ttripolli | Ashb7 |
- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Tripoli (Syria).” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, May 3, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/tripoli-syria/.