Tripoli Tripolis طرابلس | |||||||||
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| 1530–1551 | |||||||||
 Map of Hospitaller Tripoli in relation to Hospitaller Malta | |||||||||
 Map of Tripoli dated 1561, shortly after the end of Hospitaller rule | |||||||||
| Status | Vassal of the Kingdom of Sicily | ||||||||
| Capital | Tripoli | ||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||
• 1530–1531 | Gaspare de Sanguessa (first) | ||||||||
• 1551 | Gaspard de Vallier (last) | ||||||||
| Historical era | Early modern period | ||||||||
| 23 March 1530 | |||||||||
• Established | 25 July 1530 | ||||||||
| 15 August 1551 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | Libya | ||||||||
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Tripoli, today the capital city of Libya, was ruled by the Knights Hospitaller between 1530 and 1551. The city had been under Spanish rule for two decades before it was granted as a fief to the Hospitallers in 1530 along with the islands of Malta and Gozo. The Hospitallers found it difficult to control both the city and the islands, and at times they proposed to either move their headquarters to Tripoli or to abandon and raze the city. Hospitaller rule over Tripoli ended in 1551 when the city was captured by the Ottoman Empire following a siege.