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Italian invasion of Libya (1911)
On the WWI map as “Italy invades Libya”
Oct 1911 — Italian forces land at Tripoli to seize the Ottoman Empire’s last provinces in North Africa. On 1 November an Italian pilot drops grenades on nearby Ottoman camps, the first bombs ever dropped from an aeroplane in war. The display of Ottoman weakness encourages the Balkan states to strike.
When Oct 1911 Type Turning point Chapter Bosnian crisis and the Balkan Wars (chapter 2 of WWI)Atlas The Great War, 1871–1923 TURNING POINT · THE GREAT WAR, 1871–1923 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · Natural Earth physical geography · Anglo-Russian Convention, 31 August 1907, articles I–II
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Source polygons retained with original identities; geographic selections and corrections by Maps of History.. CC BY 4.0 Made with Natural Earth; geographic reference and physical land only. No modern political boundary is used as a historical boundary.. Public domain US Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States; convention’s named places define the two concession spheres.. Historical treaty facts, independently reconstructed Annual source features can describe claims, legal territory or military control. Occupied extensions are separated from the prewar Central Power homelands, while the original source names and shapes remain available.
The displayed state is iss 1913. Geographic reference dates and reconstruction methods are recorded for each feature.
reconstruction: 1871–1918 · reconstruction: 31 August 1907 · vector: 1815–1937 · vector: 1848–1935 · vector: 1864–1921 · vector: 1871–1914 · vector: 1871–1916 · vector: 1873–1914 · vector: 1890–1914 · vector: 1895–1917 · vector: 1898–1914 · vector: 1900–1918 · vector: 1905–1914 · vector: 1905–1915 · vector: 1905–1921 · vector: 1908–1935 · vector: 1911–1913 · vector: 1912–1913 · vector: 1912–1914 · vector: 1912–1915 · vector: 1912–1919 · vector: 1912–1921 · vector: 1912–1955 · vector: 1913–1913 · vector: 1913–1914 · vector: 1913–1915
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