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Tripoli (al-Gharb)

طرابلس (الغرب)

A fortified city with a wall of white stone, handsome streets and well-made markets, with olives, figs, palms and many fruits; al-Idrisi says King Roger took it, and it is now under his rule. 1

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Tarabulus (the West) is a fortified city with a wall of white stone, with fine streets and well-made markets. It has olives, figs, palms and many fruits. According to al-Idrisi, King Roger conquered it, and it is under his obedience. 2

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ثورة طرابلس على النصارى وإحراقهم

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Abu Yahya ibn Matruh· رجار صاحب صقلية· ثورة طرابلس على النصارى وإحراقهم

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 297
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.297
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Abu Yahya ibn Matruh

Abu Yahya ibn Matruh, a Tripoli notable; when Roger's Normans held the town he went among its leading men and drew them into striking the Franks, who were killed and burned — a daring horseman, he governed Tripoli thereafter, came in delegation to Abd al-Mu'min at Mahdiyya's fall in 555 and was confirmed over the town, until, grown old under Yusuf ibn Abd al-Mu'min, he asked leave for the hajj and sailed to settle at Alexandria in 586.