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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- colony
- Country
- Italy
- Continent
- Africa
- Capital
- Tripoli
- Official language
- Italian
- Currency
- Italian lira
- Population
- 893774
- Area
- 1759541
- Form of government
- colony
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- Commons category
- Italian Libya
- topic's main category
- Category:Italian Libya
- language used
- Domari
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Libya
- inception
- 1934-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1943-00-00
- different from
- Roman Libya
- replaced by
- Fezzan-Ghadames
- end time
- 1947-00-00
- native label
- Libia Italiana
- official religion
- Judaism
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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.