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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 .
After the 1934 formation of Libya, the Fezzan province was designated as one of the three primary provinces of the country, alongside Tripolitania province to the north and Cyrenaica province to the northeast.
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 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 ...
After the French and British occupied Libya in 1943, it was again split into three provinces: Tripolitania in the northwest, Cyrenaica in the east, and Fezzan-Ghadames in the southwest. [ 7 ] Article 176 of the 1951 constitution of Libya stated "The Kingdom of Libya shall be divided into administrative units in conformity with the law to be ...
Sabha or Sebha / ˈ s ɛ b. h ɑː / (Arabic: سَبْهَا, romanized: Sabhā) is an oasis city in southwestern Libya, [2] approximately 640 kilometres (400 mi) south of Tripoli. [3] It was historically the capital of the Fezzan region and the Fezzan-Ghadames Military Territory and is the capital of the Sabha District. [4]
The Islamic State – Libya Province (Arabic: ولاية ليبيا, romanized: Wilayah Libya) was a militant Islamist group active in Libya under three branches: Fezzan Province [a] in the desert south, Cyrenaica Province [b] in the east, and Tripolitania Province [c] in the west around Tripoli, Libya's capital city.
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.