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    Italian colonization of Libya began in 1911 and it lasted until 1943. The country, which was previously an Ottoman possession, was occupied by Italy in...
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    During the Italian colonization of Libya (1911-1943) the Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) established concentration camps in the areas of modern Libya under its...
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    Libya (Italian: Libia; Arabic: ليبيا الايطالية, romanized: Lībyā al-Īṭālīya) was a colony of Italy located in North Africa, in what is now modern Libya...
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    Yousaf Borahil Al-Msmare (category Italian Libya)
    Libyan revolutionary who fought against the Italian colonization of Libya. He also served as the deputy leader of the Libyan Jihad after the death of...
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  • Libyan people by Italian oppressors", as stated by Muammar Gaddafi in a speech a few days later. With this law, Italians who had long lived in Libya were...
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    referred to as the pacification of Libya, was a conflict that occurred during the Italian colonization of Libya between Italian military forces (composed mainly...
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    Omar al-Mukhtar (category Italian Libya)
    (currently Eastern Libya) under the Senussids, against the Italian colonization of Libya. A teacher-turned-general, Omar was a prominent figure of the Senussi...
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    ItalyLibya relations are the bilateral relations between the State of Libya and the Italian Republic. Italy has an embassy in Libya's capital, Tripoli...
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    Italian Benghazi (called "Bengasi italiana" in Italian language) was the name used during the Italian colonization of Libya for the port-city of Benghazi...
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    20 km south of central Tripoli. The Tripoli International Airport is located close by. During the Italian colonization of Libya, the Italian army defeated...
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  • Pietro Maletti (category Italian military personnel of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War)
    9 December 1940) was an Italian General and war criminal who participated in World War I, the Italian colonization of Libya, the Second Italo-Abyssinian...
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  • Battle of Gasr Bu Hadi occurred during the Italian colonization of Libya. It was the worst Italian defeat since the Battle of Adwa. On afternoon of 28 April...
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    Italian Tripolitania was an Italian colony, located in present-day western Libya, that existed from 1911 to 1934. It was part of the territory conquered...
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    Fascist Italy, evidence was largely destroyed, making remaining files in Italian concentration camps in Libya difficult to find even after the end of Fascist...
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    War as well as the beginning of the Italian colonization of Libya. The Kingdom of Italy, seeking to conquer Libya from the Ottoman Empire, declared war...
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    Italian colonization of Libya for more than twenty years. Mabrouka al-Tabiba, midwife Area near the centre of Jebel Akhdar (outskirts of the city of Bayda)...
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  • expulsion of Libyan Jews was also celebrated. It was canceled in 2004 after Silvio Berlusconi apologized for Italian colonization in Libya, but reintroduced...
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    The Italian refugees from Libya were the Italian settlers and their descendants who were forced out of Libya after the end of WWII. Most took refuge in...
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    formed a nucleus of resistance to the Italian colonization of Libya. As Libyan nationalism fostered by unified resistance to the Italians gained adherents...
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    The Battle of Kufra occurred during the Italian colonization of Libya and was a climactic moment in the Second Italo-Senussi War. The Italians were divided...
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  • Muhammad Umar al-Mukhtar (category Libyan Sunni Muslims)
    chest, made Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi apologize to Muhammad for the murder of his father and for the Italian colonization of Libya. Having...
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    Benghazi Lighthouse (category Lighthouses in Libya)
    of Libya in the neighborhood of the Sidi Khrebish area in Benghazi. Its NGA number is 21508. Built in 1922 during the Italian colonization of Libya and...
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    Senusiyya (redirect from House of Senussi)
    the Senussi campaign, utilising guerrilla warfare against the Italian colonization of Libya and the British in Egypt from November 1915 until February 1917...
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  • Omar Shegewi (category ItalyLibya relations)
    عمر الشغيوي; died 1928) was a Libyan revolutionary and resistance leader who fought against Italian colonization of Libya during the Second Italo-Senussi...
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    circulation. During the Italian colonization of Libya, Italians attempted to phonetically transliterate the Libyan Arabic pronunciations of most place names...
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    this to the Italian colonization of Libya, where the settler population, albeit larger, was more dispersed.) The capital acquired an Italian architectural...
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  • The cinema of Libya has had an uneven history. Though there was little local film production in Italian Libya and the Kingdom of Libya, cinema-going became...
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    be classified as part of the First phase of the Italian colonization of Libya. In August 1913, a military expedition composed of 1,100 men (only 108 nationals...
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    Irrigation (redirect from Watering of land)
    the Mau Mau uprising. Italian oil drillers discovered Libya's underground water resources during the Italian colonization of Libya. This water lay dormant...
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    Mukhtar organized and devised strategies for the Libyan resistance against the Italian colonization. Mukhtar was skilled in desert tactics. He knew his...
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