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Tripoli Tower

building in Libya

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ4703816 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tripoli Tower (Arabic:برج طرابلس) (Formerly Al Fateh Tower برج الفاتح) is a tower and skyscraper in Tripoli, Libya. It is located in city center of Tripoli, near central business district on Corniche Road. The building was opened in 1999. The tower houses retail outlets, serviced apartments and as well as a boutique hotel with an Oilman's club. The skyscraper has 28 floors and towers at 112 meters. There are four levels of basement car parking.

Editorial summary

“Tripoli Tower” enters the record as building in Libya. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tripoli, Tower and building can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tripoli, Tower and building.
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Why this record matters

“Tripoli Tower” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tripoli, Tower and building provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4703816. Authority coordinates are 32.892, 13.167. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Tripoli Tower”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Tripoli Tower primary sources, Tripoli Tower archive and Tripoli research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Tripoli Tower” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.