Italian Libya
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1934–1943 Italian possession in North Africa
Key facts
- 1939
- 1,759,541 km (679,363 sq mi)
- 1941
- Italo Gariboldi
- Status
- Colony of Italy
- Capital
- Tripoli
- Common languages
- Italian (official), Arabic , Berber languages , Domari
- Religion
- Islam , Coptic Orthodoxy , Judaism , Catholicism
- 1934 1943
- Victor Emmanuel III
- 1934 1940
- Italo Balbo
- 1940 1941
- Rodolfo Graziani
- 1941 1943
- Ettore Bastico
- 1943 acting
- Giovanni Messe
- Unification of tripolitania and cyrenaic
- 1 January 1934
- Coastal regions part of metropolitan ita
- 9 January 1939
- End of italian rule
- 13 May 1943
- Relinquished by italy
- 10 February 1947
- Currency
- Italian lira
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part of Libya
Chad
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Italian Libya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.