Tripoli (Syria)
- Ancient name
- Tripolis
- Modern name
- Tripoli
- Modern country
- Lebanon
- Coordinates
- 34.45, 35.81
- World Historical Gazetteer
- https://whgazetteer.org/places/portal/8364359
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 |
| tripli | Fn8 |
| Tripoli | Clas2, Cs1, Fo, Morg, NB, New, Par3, Parm2, Ricc8, Spe, Vat2, Vat3 |
| tripoli | Bal, Barb3, Barb4, Borg, Cors2, Fn3, Fn6, Fn9, He2, He3, Laur3, Laur5, ME2, Magl2, Magl4, Marc1, Med3, NYPL3, Pad1, Pal5, Pal8, Per2, Pnc5, Ricc11, Ricc12, Ricc13, Ricc15, Ricc6, Ro2, Urb1, Wie1 |
| tripoli de soria | He1, Par4, Tre |
| tripoli de Soria | Par4 |
| Tripoli de Soria | He1 |
| tripoli di soria | Tre |
| Tripoli disoria | Luc2, Med1 |
| tripolji | Con4 |
| Tripolli | Urb2 |
| Tripuli | Con3 |
| ttripolli | Ashb7 |
- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Tripoli (Syria).” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, November 13, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/tripoli-syria/.