Italy negatively affected Libya while they had control over the territory. When the Ottomans had control of the territory, it was split up into three provinces: Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and Fezzan. Then the Italians reorganized its new colony as Libya with four provinces: Tripoli, Misratah, Benghazi, and Darnah. Fezzan was renamed South Tripolitania and remained a military territory.
Italy found a very complicated political situation in Libya with the exodus of the Ottomans. They found it hard to extend their authority past coastal cities because Arab nationalism was a largely urban movement, Bedouin tribesmen in the interior were passionate about Islam, and no one was submissive to Italian rule. During World War I, which followed the Italo-Turkish War in 1914, Italy began on the side of the Central Powers, but then switched to the Allies in 1915. Libyan nationalists were torn throughout World War I because some favored the British and others favored the Ottomans because they were Muslim like Libya. However, since Britain was allies with Italy, the pro-British people of Libya started to dislike Britain for being allies with their dreadful colonial ruler. The result of this conflict was the First Italo-Sanusi War. This became part of World War I because it caused the allies to deploy 110,000 British, French, and Italian troops. 1 To Libya, the purpose of the struggle against the colonial power was defending Islam and the free life they had always enjoyed in their tribal territory.2
Sanusi tribesmen supported by the Ottomans rose up against the Italians in November of 1915. Sanusi units effectively resisted Italians in Cyrenaica and Fezzan, but there was no group like the Sanusi in Tripolitania, and therefore, the Italians were more...
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... however, were made primarily to promote the settlement effort or extract Libyan natural resources. Arab Libyans did not benefit from Italian imperialism. Schools were built, but for the Italian settlers, not for the Arabs. The brutal suppression of the Libyan resistance and the forcible seizure of land from Libyans to make way for Italian settlers was not, of course, publicized.6
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country. The Italians did not take help or aid from anyone for any reason. They brought
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