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Libya</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Benghazi Province</b>, or <i>Provincia di Bengasi</i> in Italian, was one of the <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Libya" title="Provinces of Libya">provinces of Libya</a> under Italian rule. It was established in 1937. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characteristics">Characteristics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benghazi_Province&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Characteristics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Benghazi_Italiana.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Benghazi_Italiana.JPG/250px-Benghazi_Italiana.JPG" decoding="async" width="250" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Benghazi_Italiana.JPG/375px-Benghazi_Italiana.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Benghazi_Italiana.JPG/500px-Benghazi_Italiana.JPG 2x" data-file-width="760" data-file-height="540" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Italian_Benghazi" title="Italian Benghazi">Italian Benghazi</a> in 1940</figcaption></figure> <p>Benghazi Province was located in northern <a href="/wiki/Italian_Libya" title="Italian Libya">Italian Libya</a>, in western <a href="/wiki/Cyrenaica" title="Cyrenaica">Cyrenaica</a>. Its administrative center was the city of <a href="/wiki/Bengasi" class="mw-redirect" title="Bengasi">Benghazi</a> on the Mediterranean coast. </p><p>It was divided in three sections ("Circondari" in Italian) called in Italian language: </p> <ul><li>Bengasi.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agedabia" class="mw-redirect" title="Agedabia">Agedabia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marj" title="Marj">Barce</a></li></ul> <p>The Italians conquered from the Ottomans in 1911 a region around Benghazi that was very poor and underdeveloped: it had no asphalted road, no telegraph services, no sewage systems, and no hospitals (in 1874 Benghazi had been depopulated by the <a href="/wiki/Bubonic_plague" title="Bubonic plague">bubonic plague</a>). In ten years they built all these infrastructures and by the early 1930s a new port & airport and a railways station were created in Benghazi. Indeed in those years in Benghazi were created -for the first time in Cyrenaica's History- the first manufacturing industries, that included salt processing, oil refining, food processing, cement manufacturing, tanning, brewing and sponge and tuna fishing. </p><p>In the 1920s in the Benghazi province was created a <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Railways" title="Libyan Railways">railway</a> between Benghazi (called <i>Bengasi</i> in Italian) and Barce: a 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in) (later 950 mm) gauge railway was built east from Benghazi; the main route was 110 kilometres (68 mi) long to Marj and was opened in stages between 1911 and 1927. Benghazi also had a 56 kilometres (35 mi) branch to Suluq opened in 1926.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the late 1930s in the Benghazi province were settled thousands of <a href="/wiki/Italian_settlers_in_Libya" title="Italian settlers in Libya">Italians</a> as farmers in special villages.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most of the Italians were concentrated in <a href="/wiki/Italian_Benghazi" title="Italian Benghazi">Italian Benghazi</a>, where they were in 1939 nearly one third of the population. </p><p>According to the 1939 Census Benghazi had 66,801 inhabitants, of whom 23,075 were Italians.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the late 1930s the province had a huge economic development, mainly in agriculture and commerce, but <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> destroyed it. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benghazi_Province&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the 1936 census, which allowed citizens to declare their ethnicity, Benghazi's native population was made up of 95.8% <a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arabs</a>, 0.3% <a href="/wiki/Turkish_people" title="Turkish people">Turks</a>, 0.3% <a href="/wiki/Black_people" title="Black people">Blacks</a>, 0.2% <a href="/wiki/Berbers" title="Berbers">Berbers</a>, and 3.6% Others.<sup id="cite_ref-Pan_1949_loc=121_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pan_1949_loc=121-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benghazi_Province&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dadfeatured.blogspot.com/2018/09/bengasi-italiana.html">Italian Benghazi</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gips.unisi.it/files/wp18.pdf">History of railways in colonial 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href="/wiki/Principality_of_the_Pindus" title="Principality of the Pindus">Principality of the Pindus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corfiot_Italians#World_War_II" title="Corfiot Italians">Ionian Islands</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Province_of_Ljubljana" title="Province of Ljubljana">Italian Province of Lubiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_governorate_of_Montenegro" title="Italian governorate of Montenegro">Governorate of Montenegro</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Horn_of_Africa" title="Horn of Africa">Horn of Africa</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Italian_Eritrea" title="Italian Eritrea">Italian Eritrea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_Somaliland" title="Italian Somaliland">Italian Somaliland</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oltre_Giuba" title="Oltre Giuba">Oltre Giuba</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_East_Africa" title="Italian East Africa">Italian East Africa</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eritrea_Governorate" title="Eritrea Governorate">Eritrea Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somalia_Governorate" title="Somalia Governorate">Somalia Governorate</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Italian_invasion_of_British_Somaliland" title="Italian invasion of British Somaliland">British Somaliland</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amhara_Governorate" title="Amhara Governorate">Amhara Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harar_Governorate" title="Harar Governorate">Harar Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galla-Sidamo_Governorate" title="Galla-Sidamo Governorate">Galla-Sidamo Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scioa_Governorate" title="Scioa Governorate">Scioa Governorate</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Italian_Ethiopia" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian Ethiopia">Italian Ethiopia</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Italian_colonization_of_Libya" title="Italian colonization of Libya">Libya</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Italian_Tripolitania" title="Italian Tripolitania">Tripolitania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_Cyrenaica" title="Italian Cyrenaica">Cyrenaica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_Libya" title="Italian Libya">Italian Libya</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tripoli_Province" title="Tripoli Province">Tripoli Province</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Misrata_Governorate" title="Misrata Governorate">Misrata Province</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Benghazi Province</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derna_Province" title="Derna Province">Derna Province</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Military_Territory" title="Southern Military Territory">Southern Military Territory</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Far_East" title="Far East">Far East</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Italian_concession_of_Tianjin" title="Italian concession of Tianjin">Italian concession of Tientsin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concessions_of_Italy_in_China" title="Concessions of Italy in China">Concessions & Forts of Italy in China</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Planned expansion</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Italian_occupation_of_Adalia" title="Italian occupation of Adalia">Adalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_invasion_of_Egypt" title="Italian invasion of Egypt">Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_occupation_of_Majorca" title="Italian occupation of Majorca">Majorca</a></li> <li><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_invasion_of_French_Somaliland" class="extiw" title="simple:Italian invasion of French Somaliland">Tentative to occupy French Somaliland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_African_campaign_(World_War_II)#British_East_Africa_(Kenya)" title="East African campaign (World War II)">Kenya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_African_campaign_(World_War_II)#Anglo-Egyptian_Sudan" title="East African campaign (World War II)">Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Herkules" title="Operation Herkules">Malta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Tannenbaum" title="Operation Tannenbaum">Ticino, Valais and Grisons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tunisian_campaign" title="Tunisian campaign">Tunisia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="7" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Impero_italiano.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Impero_italiano.svg/280px-Impero_italiano.svg.png" decoding="async" width="280" height="281" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Impero_italiano.svg/420px-Impero_italiano.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Impero_italiano.svg/560px-Impero_italiano.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="501" /></a><figcaption>The Italian empire before WWII is shown in red. Pink areas were annexed/occupied for various periods between 1940 and 1943. Italian concessions and forts in China are not shown.</figcaption></figure></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Settlers and Irredentism</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Settlers and colonists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Italian_colonists_in_Albania" title="Italian colonists in Albania">Albania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_colonists_in_the_Dodecanese" title="Italian colonists in the Dodecanese">Dodecanese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_Eritreans" title="Italian Eritreans">Eritrea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italians_of_Ethiopia" title="Italians of Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_settlers_in_Libya" title="Italian settlers in Libya">Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_Somalis" title="Italian Somalis">Somalia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Italian_irredentism" title="Italian irredentism">Irredentism</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Italian_irredentism_in_Corsica" title="Italian irredentism in Corsica">Corsica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_irredentism_in_Nice" title="Italian irredentism in Nice">Nice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_irredentism_in_Savoy" title="Italian irredentism in Savoy">Savoy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_irredentism_in_Dalmatia" title="Italian irredentism in Dalmatia">Dalmatia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_irredentism_in_Istria" title="Italian irredentism in Istria">Istria-Venezia Giulia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_irredentism_in_Malta" title="Italian irredentism in Malta">Malta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_irredentism_in_Switzerland" title="Italian irredentism in Switzerland">Switzerland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corfiot_Italians#Corfiot_Italians_and_the_Risorgimento" title="Corfiot Italians">Corfu</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Architecture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Governmental</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Governor%27s_Palace_of_Mogadishu" title="Governor's Palace of Mogadishu">Governor's Palace <span style="font-size:85%;">(Mogadishu) </span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Palace_of_Tripoli" title="Royal Palace of Tripoli">Governor's Palace <span style="font-size:85%;">(Tripoli) </span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governor%27s_Palace,_Asmara" title="Governor's Palace, Asmara">Governor's Palace <span style="font-size:85%;">(Asmara) </span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asmara_President%27s_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="Asmara President's Office">Asmara Presidential Palace <span style="font-size:85%;">(Asmara) </span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Civilian</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mogadishu_Cathedral" title="Mogadishu Cathedral">Mogadishu Cathedral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_of_the_Rosary,_Asmara" title="Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, Asmara">Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, Asmara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benghazi_Cathedral" title="Benghazi Cathedral">Benghazi Cathedral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tripoli_Cathedral" title="Tripoli Cathedral">Tripoli Cathedral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cinema_Impero" title="Cinema Impero">Cinema Impero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fiat_Tagliero_Building" title="Fiat Tagliero Building">Fiat Tagliero Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marble_Arch_(Libya)" title="Marble Arch (Libya)">Marble Arch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asmara_Theatre" title="Asmara Theatre">Asmara Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cape_Guardafui#Lighthouse_"Francesco_Crispi"" title="Cape Guardafui">Lighthouse "Francesco Crispi" (Cape Guardafui)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Urbanism</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tripoli,_Libya#Italian_era" title="Tripoli, Libya">Italian Tripoli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mogadishu_under_Italian_rule" class="mw-redirect" title="Mogadishu under Italian rule">Mogadishu under Italian rule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_Benghazi" title="Italian Benghazi">Italian Benghazi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asmara#Italian_Asmera" title="Asmara">Italian Asmara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Massawa#Italian_rule" title="Massawa">Italian Massaua</a></li> <li><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addis_Abeba" class="extiw" title="simple:Addis Abeba">Addis Abeba under Italian rule</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Infrastructure</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mogadishu%E2%80%93Villabruzzi_Railway" title="Mogadishu–Villabruzzi Railway">Mogadishu–Villabruzzi Railway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethio-Djibouti_Railways" title="Ethio-Djibouti Railways">Ethio-Djibouti Railways</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eritrean_Railway" title="Eritrean Railway">Eritrean Railway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asmara-Massawa_Cableway" title="Asmara-Massawa Cableway">Asmara-Massawa Cableway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_railway_stations_in_Eritrea" title="List of railway stations in Eritrea">Railway stations in Eritrea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Somalia" title="Rail transport in Somalia">Rail transport in Somalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libyan_Coastal_Highway" title="Libyan Coastal Highway">Via Balbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Via_della_Vittoria" title="Via della Vittoria">Via della Vittoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Line" title="Imperial Line">Linea dell'Impero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_Libya_Railways" title="Italian Libya Railways">Italian Libya Railways</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Railway_stations_in_Libya" title="Railway stations in Libya">Libyan Railway stations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_colonial_railways" title="Italian colonial railways">History of Italian colonial railways</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Political concepts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Italian_imperialism_under_Fascism" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian imperialism under Fascism">Greater Italy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mare_Nostrum" title="Mare Nostrum">Mare Nostrum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_Empire" title="Italian Empire">New Roman Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spazio_vitale" title="Spazio vitale">Spazio vitale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Shore" title="Fourth Shore">Fourth Shore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Succession_of_the_Roman_Empire#Risorgimento_and_Fascist_Italy" title="Succession of the Roman Empire">Third Rome</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th 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