Word: tripolitania
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Dates: during 1911-1911
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Africa for centuries has been the object of the cupidity of Europe. England, France, and Germany now occupy the larger part of it, leaving Tripolitania the only important section not in the control of the Christians. Yet this region as it is today is not a country which is fitted to produce on the modern scale. Rivers run through it into the sea, but in the dry season they become simply dried up river beds. So Italy, in undertaking to conquer Tripoli and use it as a colony, must be prepared to spend years in introducing modern methods and systems...