Tripoli

Tripoli (Tarabulus al-Sham), a Mediterranean port in northern Lebanon, was a town of Bilad al-Sham, taken by the Crusaders in 1109 and recovered by the Mamluks in 1289, after which it was rebuilt inland. The modernist reformer Rashid Rida (d. 1935), founder of the journal al-Manar, was born in a village near Tripoli. [Lebanese Tripoli, not the Libyan capital.]