WebAfter the Italian Empire's conquest of Ottoman Tripolitania (Ottoman Libya), in the 1911–12 Italo-Turkish War, much of the early colonial period had Italy waging a war of subjugation against Libya's population.Ottoman Turkey surrendered its control of Libya in the 1912 Treaty of Lausanne, but fierce resistance to the Italians continued from the Senussi …

WebThis discussion focuses on Libya since the 18th century. For a treatment of earlier periods and of the country in its regional context, see North Africa. Largely desert with some limited potential for urban and sedentary life in the northwest and northeast, Libya has historically never been heavily populated or a power centre. Like that of its neighbour Algeria, …

WebItalian Eritrea (Italian: Colonia Eritrea, "Colony of Eritrea") was a colony of the Kingdom of Italy in the territory of present-day Eritrea.The first Italian establishment in the area was the purchase of Assab by the Rubattino Shipping Company in 1869, which came under government control in 1882. Occupation of Massawa in 1885 and the subsequent …

WebWorld War I or the First World War, often abbreviated as WWI or WW1, and referred to by some Anglophone authors as the "Great War" or the "War to End All Wars", was a global conflict which lasted from 1914 to 1918, and is considered one of the deadliest conflicts in history.Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and …

WebItalian War, 1911. Italian landings in Libya and Rhodes ... Libya was lost to Italy, and Balkan war erupted in the fall of 1912. Freedom and Accord flexed its muscles with the forced dissolution of the parliament in 1912. ... Britain and France, to declare war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914. The Ottoman Empire was active in the Balkans ...

WebItalo-Turkish War. In 1911, Italy went to war with the Ottoman Empire and invaded Ottoman Tripolitania.One of the most notorious incidents during this conflict was the October Tripoli massacre, wherein many civilian inhabitants of the Mechiya oasis were killed over a period of three days as retribution for the execution and mutilation of Italian captives taken in an …

WebIn October 1911, during the Italo-Turkish War, the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy) under the command of Admiral Luigi Faravelli reached the shores of Libya, then a territory subject to Ottoman control.The admiral demanded that the Ottoman administration and garrison surrender their territory to the Italians or incur the immediate destruction of the city of …

WebThe Royal Italian Army (Italian: Regio Esercito, lit. 'Royal Army') was the land force of the Kingdom of Italy, established with the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy.During the 19th century Italy started to unify into one country, and in 1861 Manfredo Fanti signed a decree creating the Army of the Two Sicilies.This newly created army's first task was to defend …

WebQuestia. After more than twenty years, Questia is discontinuing operations as of Monday, December 21, 2020.

WebThe Italian front or Alpine front (Italian: Fronte alpino, "Alpine front"; in German: Gebirgskrieg, "Mountain war") involved a series of battles at the border between Austria-Hungary and Italy, fought between 1915 and 1918 in the course of World War I.Following secret promises made by the Allies in the 1915 Treaty of London, Italy entered the war …