The Royal Miramare Theatre was a theatre located at Martyrs' Square (formerly Green Square) built in 1925 in

Tripoli, Libya Tripoli (; ar, طرابلس الغرب, translit= Ṭarābulus al-Gharb , translation=Western Tripoli) is the capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.1 million people in 2019. It is located in the northwest of Libya o ...

. It was located next to the Red Castle. In the 1950s, the theatre was the centre of theatrical activity in Libya. It was demolished in the late 1960s by

Muammar Gaddafi Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, . Due to the lack of standardization of transcribing written and regionally pronounced Arabic, Gaddafi's name has been romanized in various ways. A 1986 column by ''The Straight Dope'' lists 32 spellin ...

, who became Libya's autocratic ruler in 1969.

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