{"slug": "tripolitania", "label": "Tripolitania", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripolitania", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192435", "qid": "Q192435", "description": "historic region and former province of Libya", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [299, 1145], "span_label": ["299 CE", "1145 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}], "related": [{"slug": "carthage", "label": "Carthage", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "sardinia", "label": "Sardinia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "libya", "label": "Libya", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "moors", "label": "Moors", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "fortification", "label": "Fortification", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sicily", "label": "Sicily", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "christianity", "label": "Christianity", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "arabbyzantine-wars", "label": "Arab–Byzantine wars", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rashidun-army", "label": "Rashidun army", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "morocco", "label": "Morocco", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vandals", "label": "Vandals", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 299, "year_label": "299 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Having first crossed into Africa in 296, Emperor Maximian concludes his campaigns against the Quinquegentiani and other Berbers. His campaigns had ranged as far as Mauretania in the west and Tripolitania in the east. Julianus, a rebel leader in Africa, throws himself into a fire after the Romans breach the walls of his stronghold.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267078871#Roman_Empire", "title": "299", "revid": 1267078871, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 468, "year_label": "468 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Anthemius sends a Roman expedition under command of Marcellinus. He expels the Vandals from Sicily and retakes Sardinia. The Eastern general Heraclius of Edessa lands with a force on the Libyan coast, east of Carthage, and advances from Tripolitania.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360138410#Roman_Empire", "title": "468", "revid": 1360138410, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 533, "year_label": "533 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Vandalic War: Anti-Vandal revolt in Tripolitania and Sardinia; Gelimer, king of the Vandals, dispatches the bulk of the Vandal fleet (120 ships and 5,000 men) under his brother Tzazo to Sardinia. Byzantine forces from Cyrenaica occupy Leptis Magna and Tripolis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340793764#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "533", "revid": 1340793764, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 547, "year_label": "547 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Marta: The Byzantine army under John Troglita is defeated by Moorish tribes in Tripolitania. He flees to Lunci (9 km south of Mahares), and is forced to withdraw north to the fortress of Laribus (near modern El Kef).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364909272#Africa", "title": "547", "revid": 1364909272, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 647, "year_label": "647 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Arab–Byzantine War: An Arab army (20,000 men) under Abdullah ibn Sa'ad invades the Byzantine Exarchate of Africa. It conquers Tripolitania and the city of Sufetula, 150 miles (240 km) south of Carthage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340804471#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "647", "revid": 1340804471, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 752, "year_label": "752 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri, ruler of Ifriqiya (North Africa), dispatches a Muslim army and reconquers Tripolitania from the Ibadites (a puritanical Khaijite sect), driving their remnants south into the Nafusa Mountains (northwestern Libya).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809787#Africa", "title": "752", "revid": 1340809787, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1021, "year_label": "1021 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The last evidence of indigenous Christian and non-Arabophone culture in Tripolitania (modern Libya) is seen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342212958#Africa", "title": "1021", "revid": 1342212958, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1145, "year_label": "1145 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Merinids of Maghrib al-Aqsa attempt to resist the Almohads but are forced into the desert areas around the Tafilalt. Oran falls to the Almohads. A Norman raid against the Tripolitania region succeeds.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362160818#Africa", "title": "1145", "revid": 1362160818, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}]}