Italian occupation of Libya: circumstances, means, 1911-1905reasons, decision to invade

Abstract

The Second Berlin Conference 1884-1885 was of great importance in the history of the African continent, laying the new foundations for economic relations within the continent, and regulating relations between european colonial powers on legal grounds, which led to the domination of these powers over trade in the regions Its influence, which also gave conditions for occupation, influence and the sharing of African regions in the future, eventually redrew a new political map of the continent and was seen as the beginning of the end of the policy of conflict and race by the colonial powers on the continent and eventually led to the colonization and exploitation, and the depletion of the capabilities, resources and peoples continent. Only Liberia on the west and abyssinia in the east of the country have been spared from that policy. Tripoli west (Libya) is one of the countries of North Africa, and like other African countries witnessed the rivalry and competition of the Colonization of Europe between France, Britain, Germany and Italy, and the latter was able to occupy and control it, and this study came to look at the factors and circumstances of the occupation, and then clarify the colonial policy followed by the Italian colonization in Tripoli west.