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Italian colonists in 1940 Libya. Many of them become refugees after WWII. The Italian refugees from Libya were the Italian settlers and their descendants who were forced out of Libya after the end of WWII. [1] Most took refuge in Italy, mainly after their expulsion in 1970, ordered by Muammar Gaddafi. [2]
The Italian colonization of Libya began in 1911 and it lasted until 1943. The country, which was previously an Ottoman possession, was occupied by Italy in 1911 after the Italo-Turkish War, which resulted in the establishment of two colonies: Italian Tripolitania and Italian Cyrenaica.
Libya (Italian: Libia; Arabic: ليبيا الايطالية, romanized: Lībyā al-Īṭālīya) was a colony of Italy located in North Africa, in what is now modern Libya, between 1934 and 1943.
In Africa, the colonial empire included the territories of present-day Libya, Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia (the last three being officially named "Africa Orientale Italiana", AOI); outside Africa, Italy possessed the Dodecanese Islands (following the Italo-Turkish War), Albania (1917–1920 and 1939–1943) [3] and also had some concessions in ...
The strong political instability of Libya, following the dismissal of Ghaddafi in 2011, constitutes a serious problem for Italian energy supply; the diminishing of oil quotation had weakened the bilateral exchanges in the last years, and this is linked to the fact that Italy-Libya exchanges are specialized on oil sector, indeed the 55% of ...
During WW2, since June 1940 Libya was at the center of destructive fighting between the Axis and the British empire: the Allies conquered from Italy all of Libya only by February 1943. From 1943 to 1951, Tripolitania and Cyrenaica were under British military administration, while the French controlled Fezzan.
When the Fascist regime gained power in Italy, the colonization of Libya was increased; thousands of Italian settlers poured into the country with promises of free land and financial aid. By 1939, Italians in Libya numbered 108,419 (12.37 percent of the total population) according to census figures; plans envisioned 500,000 Italian settlers by ...
Libya had some 150,000 Italians settlers when Italy entered World War II in 1940, constituting about 18% of the total population in Italian Libya. [88] [89] The Italians in Libya resided (and many still do) in most major cities like Tripoli (37% of the city was Italian), Benghazi (31%), and Hun (3%). Their numbers decreased after 1946.