Italian Tripolitania

Italian Tripolitania Tripolitania Italiana (Italian) طرابلس الإيطالية (Arabic)
1911–1934
Flag Coat of arms
Capital	Tripoli
Common languages	Italian Arabic
Religion	Islam Roman Catholicism
Government	Colonial administration
Monarch
• 1911–1934	Victor Emmanuel III
Governor
• 1911 (first)	R.B.R. d'Olmo
• 1928–1934 (last)	Pietro Badoglio
Historical era	Interwar period
• Occupation of Tripoli	5 October 1911
• Italian sovereignty	5 November 1911
• Ottoman withdrawal	18 October 1912
• Tripolitania colony	12 November 1922
• Part of Italian Libya	1 January 1934
Preceded by Succeeded by Ottoman Tripolitania Tripolitanian Republic Italian Libya

Italian Tripolitania was an Italian colony, located in present-day western Libya, that existed from 1911 to 1934. It was part of the territory conquered from the Ottoman Empire after the Italo-Turkish War in 1911. Italian Tripolitania included the western northern half of Libya, with Tripoli^[1] as its main city. In 1934, it was unified with Italian Cyrenaica in the colony of Italian Libya. In 1939, Tripolitania was considered a part of the Kingdom of Italy's 4th Shore.

Although resistance to the Italian colonisers was less prevalent in Tripolitania than Cyrenaica (which waged significant guerilla warfare), a resistance group did form the Tripolitanian Republic in 1918. Although it didn't succeed in setting up a republic, it demonstrated attempts to resist colonial control. The Italian colonisers set up various infrastructure projects, most notably roads and railways. Archeology was another important feature of the Italian presence in Tripolitania, as they focused efforts in excavations in old Roman cities.

A significant number of Italian settlers moved to Tripolitania, particularly to Tripoli, and Italian presence was still felt long after the decolonisation process began.