"The city of Leptis Magna, originally a Phœnician colony, was
the capital of this part of the province [the tract of
north-African coast between the Lesser and the Greater
Syrtes], and held much the same prominent position as that of
Tripoli at the present day. The only other towns in the region
of the Syrtes, as it was sometimes called, were Œa, on the
site of the modern Tripoli, and Sabrata, the ruins of which
are still visible at a place called Tripoli Vecchio. The three
together gave the name of the Tripolis of Africa to this
region, as distinguished from the Pentapolis of Cyrenaïca.
Hence the modern appellation."
_E. H. Bunbury,
History of Ancient Geography,
chapter 20, section 1, footnote (volume 2)._
See, also, CARTHAGE, THE DOMINION OF.
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LERIDA: B. C. 49.
Cæsar's success against the Pompeians.
See ROME: B. C. 49.
LERIDA: A. D. 1644-1646,
Sieges and battle.
See SPAIN: A. D. 1644-1646.
LERIDA: A. D. 1707.
Stormed and sacked by the French and Spaniards.
See SPAIN: A. D. 1707.
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