Tripolitania
The word Libya, or Libia in Italian, was used to describe a geographical area, northern east Africa – but not including Egypt. It was an area where the Berbers lived for about four thousand years. There wasn’t a country called Libya until the early part of the 20th Century.
The Kingdom of Italy, under the control of the Mussolini and the Fascists sought to expand Italy and build an empire. As a settlement for winning the Italo-Turkish War in 1911, Italy was given the regions in northern Africa called, Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. They were made colonies of the Kingdom of Italy. In 1936 those two colonies would be merged together, with some other smaller neighboring territories that Italy occupied, to form the new colony of Libya. It would remain part of the Kingdom of Italy until 1943, but would not become independent of colonial powers until 1951.
The stamps in this album are from Tripolitania. The next album contains stamps from Cyrenaica. The previous album is for Libya, after the merger of the regions into the larger colony.
Note
I first designed this album about a year ago, using information from printed and on-line catalogs. Leuchtturm doesn’t sell pages for any of the Italian colonies or occuptions. Recently, I redesign it and the pages for the Libyan album. I was able to do this after having acquired many of the stamps – it’s easier to do the layout when you have the stamps. Plus, I had some stamps in the wrong places, was missing spaces for a few, and changed my policy about classifying Libya and Tripolitania stamps. Hopefully, I won’t need to redo these pages again. It wasn’t not a simple or quick task.
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