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Tripoli

Tripoli (Trablos), some of 85 km north of Beirut and the second largest city in Lebanon, shares the long history of the Levantine coast. It was the centre of a Phoneician confederation with Sidon and Tyre and Arados Island - hence the name "Tripolis", meaning "triple city". The first parliament ever to convene in the Middle East met in the Phoenician confederate city of Tripoli.

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