County of Tripoli
| County of Tripoli | ||||||||||
| Comitatus Tripolitanus | ||||||||||
| Vassal of, in turn, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Principality of Antioch and the Mongol Empire | ||||||||||
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| Capital | Tortosa (1102-1109), Tripoli (1109-1289) | |||||||||
| Languages | Latin, Old French, Old Occitan, Italian, Arabic, Greek | |||||||||
| Religion |
Roman Catholic Church officially Eastern Orthodox Church popularly Oriental Orthodoxy, Islam, and Judaism minority |
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| Government | Monarchy | |||||||||
| Count of Tripoli | ||||||||||
| • | 1102–1105 | Raymond IV | ||||||||
| • | 1287–1289 | Lucia of Tripoli | ||||||||
| Historical era | High Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Established | 1102 | ||||||||
| • | Conquered by Qalawun | 27 April 1289 | ||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Lebanon Syria
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The County of Tripoli (1109–1289) was the last of the Crusader states. It was founded in the Levant in the modern-day region of Tripoli, northern Lebanon and parts of western Syria which supported an indigenous population of Christians, Druze and Muslims. When the Crusaders, (Christian, mostly Frankish forces), captured the region in 1109, Bertrand of Toulouse became the first Count of Tripoli as a vassal of King Baldwin I of Jerusalem. From that time, rule of the county was decided not strictly by inheritance but by factors such as military force (external and civil war), favour and negotiation. In 1289 the County of Tripoli fell to Sultan Qalawun of the Muslim Mamluks of Cairo. The county was absorbed into Mamluk Egypt.
Raymond IV of Toulouse was one of the wealthiest and most powerful of the Prince Crusaders. Even so, after the First Crusade, he had failed to secure any land holdings in the Near East. Meanwhile, the County of Edessa, the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Principality of Antioch had been established. Tripoli was an important strategic goal as it linked the French in the south with the Normans in the north. It was a fertile and well populated area. In 1102, Raymond IV occupied Tortosa (now Tartus) and in 1103, he prepared, together with veterans of the 1101 crusade, to take Tripoli.
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