Abstract:
Our study aims to show an import
ant aspect of the modern history of Tripoli in
the West, especially in the economi c field, which is the trade of desert caravans
during the second Ottoman era. south o f the desert.
The land caravan trade went through different phases and stages between
pr osperity and activity at times and decline and recession at other times,
depending on the circumstances and the political data.
This trade was not spared . of European interference and competition beginning
with the E uropean Renaissance in the seventeenth century and reaching its peak
in the nineteenth century
