British Military Administration (Libya)
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Amministrazione Militare Britannica della Libia (Italian) الإدارة البريطانية العسكرية في ليبيا (Arabic) |
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| British Military Administration (1942-1950) British Administration (1950-1951) |
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 Map of the allied occupation of Libya showing Tripolitania and Cyrenaica
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| Capital | Tripoli | |||||||||||
| Languages | English, Italian, Arabic | |||||||||||
| Political structure | British Military Administration (1942-1950) British Administration (1950-1951) |
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| History | ||||||||||||
| • | British occupation of Cyrenaica | November 1942 | ||||||||||
| • | Joined Cyrenaica and Fezzan-Ghadames to form the Kingdom of Libya | 24 December 1951 | ||||||||||
| Currency |
Military Authority Lira (Tripolitania) Egyptian pound (Cyrenaica) |
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The British Military Administration of Libya was the control of the regions of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania of the former Italian Libya by the British from 1942 until the Libyan independence in 1951. It was part of the allied administration of Libya.
In November 1942, the Allied forces retook Cyrenaica. By February 1943, the last German and Italian soldiers were driven from Libya and the allied occupation of Libya began.
Tripolitania and Cyrenaica remained under British administration, while the French controlled Fezzan. In 1944, Idris returned from exile in Cairo but declined to resume permanent residence in Cyrenaica until the removal in 1947 of some aspects of foreign control. Under the terms of the 1947 peace treaty with the Allies, Italy, which hoped to maintain the colony of Tripolitania and France, which wanted the Fezzan, relinquished all claims to Libya. Libya so remained united.
In June 1948, anti-Jewish rioters in Libya killed another 12 Jews and destroyed 280 Jewish homes. The fear and insecurity which arose from these anti-Jewish attacks and the founding of the state of Israel led many Jews to flee Libya. From 1948 to 1951, 30,972 Libyan Jews moved to Israel. By the 1970s, the rest of Libyan Jews (some 7,000) were evacuated to Italy.
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