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unusual facts about Italian Libya


British Military Administration

The British Military Administration (Libya) (sometimes known as British Military Administration (Tripolitania)), the interim administration established on former Italian Libya between the beginning of Allied occupation of the territory in late 1942 and the independence of the kingdom of Libya in December 24, 1951.


Roman Catholicism in Libya

Before World War II the number of Catholics increased in Libya due to its status as an Italian colony, but the Catholic Cathedral of Tripoli (built in the 1920s) was converted to a mosque.

Rossana Podestà

Podesta was born in Tripoli, in the Italian colony of Libya, where she spent her first years and later moved to Rome after World War II.


see also

The Holocaust in Italian Libya

The Holocaust in Italian Libya began with the publishing of the Manifesto of Race in 1938 and ended with the British conquering Libya from the hands of Fascist Italy, in December 1942.