Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tripoli, work has been going forward in uncovering the city of Leptis Magna, birthplace of the Emperor Septimius Severus. The city, 100 miles east of Tripoli, and about five miles from the sea at the present time, was formerly a seaport as the discovery of elaborate wharves proves. It was almost two miles square and the ruins are now buried in from 10 to 50 ft. of sand. A great palace, several statues and baths have been uncovered, and a series of columns nine metres high...
...Calif and accept this offer, it would give the Italians much of the moral power of a second Vatican, consolidating her Mediterranean position between Europe's Catholics and Africa's Moslems, and being of immediate advantage in her relations with the turbulent Senussi sect in his Tripoli possessions...
More fighting in Tripoli. Another Italian victory. "Six hundred rebels killed, including many Arab chiefs. Two hundred and fifty rifles taken." Italian losses: one killed, two wounded. Italian native troops lost: 18 killed, 84 wounded. Another victory was expected...
...Treaty of London, which won Italy to the side of the Allies, promised rectification of the frontier between Tripoli (Italian) and Tunis, in Italy's favor. France cedes Italy two oases and a strip of territory. Italian schools in Tunis will enjoy equal privileges with the French. Italy will receive 600,000 tons of phosphates a year from French African colonies. The railways running from Tunis to Tripoli are to give reciprocal advantages to freight and passengers...
Italy's colonial interests have been brought to the front by the recent fighting in Tripoli, which has cleared the ground held by the rebels since 1915. In her last victory Italy gained important strategical positions which have given her control over the whole of her large colony, with a few unimportant exceptions. Italy came into possession of Tripoli during her war with Turkey, 1911-12. It was annexed in 1911, and in the Treaty of Ouchy, signed in October, 1912, Italian sovereignty was formally established...