Italo-Turkish War
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The Italo-Turkish War, also known as the Turco-Italian War, was fought between the Kingdom of Italy and the Ottoman Empire from 29 September 1911 to 18 October 1912. As a result of this conflict, Ital
Clockwise from top left: Battery of Italian 149/23 cannons; Mustafa Kemal with an Ottoman officer and Libyan mujahideen; Italian troops landing in Tripoli; an Italian Blériot aircraft; Ottoman gunboat Bafra sinking at Al Qunfudhah; Ottoman prisoners in Rhodes.
Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti, 1905
Italian dirigibles bomb Turkish positions on Libyan territory. The Italo-Turkish War was the first in history to feature aerial bombardment by airplanes and airships.
Ismail Enver Bey in Cyrenaica, 1911
Italian Libya
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Libya was a colony of the Kingdom of Italy located in North Africa, in what is now modern Libya, between 1934 and 1943. It was formed from the unification of the colonies of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania
Italian Libya in 1941: Libya Italian-controlled territory Kingdom of Italy
The Italian Army landing at the Port of Tripoli, 1911
Italian Benghazi, where the "Lungomare" (sea-walk) and many other buildings were constructed
Italian Libya as the Fourth Shore was the southern part of "Imperial Italy" (orange borders), a Fascist project to enlarge Italy's national borders.