The Ottoman Siege of Tripoli: Lebanon's Forgotten Resistance
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In this episode, we leave the marble halls of Beirut and the silk plantations of the Chouf to look at the rugged coastal city of Tripoli. While earlier episodes covered the Phoenician alphabet and the Maronite-Druze conflicts of Mount Lebanon, we turn our attention to the 1860s and the fierce resistance led by local notables against Ottoman centralization. We explore how Tripoli’s merchants and sheikhs formed a temporary alliance with Egyptian forces under Ismail Pasha to defy Sultan Abdulaziz. The story details the brutal siege that followed, the starvation tactics used by imperial troops, and the ultimate execution of the city’s leaders. This is a tale of urban survival, military strategy, and the complex web of loyalty in the late Ottoman Empire, focusing on figures like Sheikh Muhammad Aref al-Atrash and the specific dynamics of the Levantine coast during a period of intense modernization and control.
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