siege, medieval

Siege of Tripoli

Name: Siege of Tripoli
Location: Tripoli, Libya

Siege of Tripoli was a siege conducted in AD 812 at Tripoli, in what is now Libya. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Tripoli. The recorded result: Siege lifted; Modus vivendi.

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FoughtAD 812

WhereTripoli, Libya32.888N, 13.188E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomeSiege lifted; Modus vivendi

BelligerentsRustamids; NafusaagainstAghlabids

Record

Date	AD 812 (year precision)
Place	Tripoli, Libya 32.888N, 13.188E
Kind	Siege, medieval
Commanders	Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Rahman	Ibrahim ibn al Aghlab Abdallah ibn Ibrahim

Placed at Tripoli; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Italian invasion of Tripolitania 1912, same recorded site
Battle of Tripoli 1911, 0.4 km E
Action of 1 August 1801 1801, 1.3 km S
Fall of Tripoli 1289, 1.4 km S
Siege of Tripoli 1551, 1.6 km N

Elsewhere in AD 812

Siege of Baghdad (812-813) Iraq

Siege of Tripoli is one of 193 engagements of the 9th century in the atlas and one of 72 in present-day Libya.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q124661429, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Siege of Tripoli (812), revision 1370746053, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.