Category:Stamps of Italian Libya
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The Italian colony Italian Libya, existed 1934-1942 in Northern Africa in what is now modern Libya.
- - The territory of the colony extended over the areas of the then Italian colonies Cyrenaica and Tripolitania (existed as colonies of the Kingdom of Italy since 1912) and the Fezzan area (with the mountains of the same name).
Colonia Libia Italiana
- - Before 1912 were the territories of the contemporary Libya a province of the Ottoman Empire. From 1909 onwards were in Lybia also used stamps of Italy with the overprint "Barberia" (= the Ottoman name for this province). In 1912 was ceded the Libyan territory from the Ottoman Empire to the kingdom of Italy. Subsequently was this area occupated by Italian military units and annected in the name of Italy. The Italian administrative authorities began afterwards (from 1912 onwards) to use Italian stamps with "Libia" overprints for the postal traffic.
- - In 1921, the Italian colonial athorities of this areas (Tripolitania, Cyrenaika, and Libya) printed the first own definitive issues, greater issues came for the first time in 1924 in circulation with good print qualities.
- - Until their unification with Libya in 1934, Tripolitania and Cyrenaica remained separate Italian colonies.
- - The three former areas was unified to "Italian Libya" effective from the .
- - Initially was Italian Libya a semi-autonomous province of the Kingdom of Italy, later was it a colonial protectorate.
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Media in category "Stamps of Italian Libya"
The following 13 files are in this category, out of 13 total.
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Silfio, 1942.jpg 239 × 285; 20 KB
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ITA LIY 1924 pm B002.jpg 895 × 1,069; 451 KB
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ITA LIY 1931 MiNr0071 pm B002.jpg 877 × 1,030; 380 KB
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ITA-LIY 1921 MiNr0030 pm B002.jpg 914 × 1,041; 411 KB
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ITA-LIY 1924 MiNr0054A pm B002.jpg 865 × 1,023; 378 KB
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ITA-LIY 1924 MiNr0059A pm B002a.jpg 849 × 978; 418 KB
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ITA-LIY 1924 MiNr0062A pm B002a.jpg 856 × 954; 385 KB
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ITA-LIY 1936 MiNr0078 pm B002.jpg 802 × 1,313; 351 KB
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ITA-LIY 1936 MiNr0079 pm B002.jpg 850 × 1,402; 457 KB
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ITA-LY 1934 MiNrP015 pm B002.jpg 597 × 499; 147 KB
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Stamp Italian Libya 1912 1c.jpg 149 × 180; 7 KB
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Stamp Italian Libya 1921 1c.jpg 312 × 365; 46 KB
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Stamp Italian Libya 1941 1.25L.jpg 320 × 195; 27 KB