TRIPOLIS, a City of Phœnicia, lying upon the Mediterranean Sea, between Botrys to the South, and Arca to the North. ‘Tis watered by a River that runs down from Libanus. ‘Tis mentioned in the Second Book of the Maccabees, xiv. 1. where it is said, that three Years after the Death of Antiochus Epiphanes, Demetrius, the Son of Seleucus, to whom the Kingdom of Syria of right belonged, made his Escape from Rome, and landed at Tripolis, in the Year of the World 3642, before Christ 358, before the Vulgar Æra 362. The Word Tripolis, in Greek, signifies three Cities; because in reality it was made up of three Cities, which were distant from one another the Length of a Stadium, or Furlong. One of these Cities belonged to the Arabians, another to the Sidonians, and the third to the Tyrians.a It is still to this Day a considerable Place, because of its Harbour.
