crusader state · Anatolia and the Levant

County of Tripoli

1102 CE – 1289 CE · capital Tripoli

The last Crusader state to be founded, a Lebanese coastal county that held Krak des Chevaliers and lasted until 1289.

Origins

Raymond of Saint-Gilles, count of Toulouse, besieged Tripoli from 1102, building the castle of Mount Pilgrim outside the city, but died in 1105. His son Bertrand took the city from the Banu Ammar in July 1109, and the county was formed as a vassal of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Rule and society

The county ran along the coast from Jubail to Tortosa and inland to the Orontes. Its counts, from the house of Toulouse, gave the Hospitallers Krak des Chevaliers in 1142, and the military orders came to hold much of the frontier. Raymond III was regent of Jerusalem in the 1170s and 1180s. Tripoli's silk, sugar and paper industries continued under Frankish rule. From the early 13th century the county was united with the Principality of Antioch.

Decline and legacy

Krak des Chevaliers fell to Baybars in 1271. The Mamluk sultan Qalawun stormed Tripoli in April 1289, and a new city was built inland.

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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). County of Tripoli. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/county-of-tripoli
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“County of Tripoli.” The Epoch Institute States Register, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/county-of-tripoli. Accessed .
Chicago
The Epoch Institute. “County of Tripoli.” The Epoch Institute States Register. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/county-of-tripoli.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘County of Tripoli’, The Epoch Institute States Register. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/county-of-tripoli (Accessed: ).

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