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Tripoli
WordNet
noun
(1) A port city and commercial center in northwestern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea
(2) The capital and chief port and largest city of Libya; in northwestern Libya on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by the Phoenicians in the 7th century BC
(3) A weathered and decomposed siliceous limestone; in powdered form it is used in polishing