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Italian Cyrenaica (Italian: Cirenaica Italiana; Arabic: برقة الايطالیة) was an Italian colony, located in present-day eastern Libya, that existed from 1911 to 1934. It was part of the territory conquered from the Ottoman Empire during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911, [ 1 ] alongside Italian Tripolitania .
Cyrenaica became an Italian colony in 1911. After the 1934 formation of Italian Libya, the Cyrenaica province was designated as one of the three primary provinces of the country. During World War II, it fell under British military and civil administration from 1943 until 1951, and finally in the Kingdom of Libya from 1951 until 1963.
Italian Cyrenaica Protectorate: 1: Lieutenant general Ottavio Briccola (1853–1924) 9 January 1913: 6 November 1913: 301 days: 2 Lieutenant general Giovanni Ameglio
Cyrenaica province is one of the three traditional Provinces of Libya. It was a formal province from 1934 until 1963, when it was subdivided into the Governorates of Libya. Its capital was the city of Benghazi. Between 1911 and 1934 it had been the separately governed colony of Italian Cyrenaica. In 1963 the province was split into: Bayda ...
The two corps, Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, were merged into a common Libyan corps, which in 1939 was renamed the Libyan corps. After 1936, the formation of colonial divisions began: Italian Libya: 1st Libyan Division; 2nd Libyan Division; Italian East Africa: 1st Eritrean Division; 2nd Eritrean Division; 101st Somali Division; 102nd Somali Division
Mukhtar's final adversary, Italian General Rodolfo Graziani, has given a description of the Senusite leader that is not lacking in respect: "Of medium height, stout, with white hair, beard, and mustache. Omar was endowed with a quick and lively intelligence; was knowledgeable in religious matters, and revealed an energetic and impetuous ...
On October 19, 1911, the Ottoman city of Benghazi was occupied by the Italians during the Italo-Turkish War. [1]Aerial view Italian Benghazi in 1940. Even if Benghazi city accepted the Italians and some members (mainly Jews) of the local community collaborated with the Italian government, in the interior nearly half the local population of Cyrenaica under the leadership of Omar Mukhtar ...
Members of the nomadic tribes of Cyrenaica with their herds during their forceful transfer to the Italian concentration camps. Fascist Italy maintained several concentration camps in Cyrenaica (Eastern Libya) during the later phase of its occupation of that country. In order to win against the resistance in Libya, the Italian troops were ...