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Fezzan was a province under the Ottoman Turks and Italy, and a province or governorate of independent Libya (alongside Tripolitania and Cyrenaica) until 1963. With the introduction of the new administrative division of Libya in 1963, Fezzan was abolished as an independent administrative unit and was divided into the muhafazat of Awbari and Sabha .
Wan Caza dunes in the Sahara Desert of Fezzan. Fezzan is crossed in the north by the ash-Shati Valley (Wadi Al Shatii) and in the west by the Wadi Irawan.These two areas, along with portions of the Tibesti Mountains crossing the Chadian border and a sprinkling of remote oases and border posts, are the only parts of the Fezzan able to support settled populations.
Prior to the Italian invasion of 1911, the area of Libya was administered as three separate provinces ("Vilayets") of the Ottoman Empire: Tripolitania, Fezzan, and Cyrenaica. At first, Italy continued the tripartite administration, but soon consolidated the area into a single province/governorate administered as the "Libyan Colony".
The history of Libya comprises six distinct ... they were probably present as tribal people in the Fezzan by about 1000 BCE, and were a local power in the Sahara ...
It was part of the allied occupation of Libya. Free French forces from French Chad occupied the area that was the former Italian Southern Military Territory in 1943, [2] and made several requests to annex Fezzan administratively to France's North African possessions. The British administration began the training of a badly needed Libyan civil ...
The Provinces of Libya were prescribed in 1934, during the last period of colonial Italian Libya, and continued through post-independence Libya until 1963 when the Governorates system was instituted. The three main provinces of the country follow the original colonial divisions of Italian Libya: Tripolitania province , Cyrenaica province and ...
Under the terms of the 1947 peace treaty with the Allies, Italy, which hoped to maintain the colony of Tripolitania, (and France, which wanted the Fezzan), relinquished all claims to Libya. Libya so remained united. Severe anti-Jewish violence erupted in Libya following the liberation of North Africa by Allied troops.
The Magarha (also al-Magarha, Meqariha) (Arabic: المقارحة) is one of the major Arab tribes of Libya. They originate from Fezzan province of Libya and have been an influential supporters and beneficiaries of Muammar Gaddafi during his long rule and then Libya's 2011 civil war.