Vilâyet Tripolitania

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Location of the Vilâyets Tripolitania in the Ottoman Empire around 1900

The Vilâyet Tripolitanien (also called Turkish Tripolitania , Ottoman Vilayeti-i Trablus-ı Garb , Turkish Trablusgarp Vilâyeti ) was an administrative sub-unit of the Ottoman Empire . The capital of the province was Tripoli .

It was founded in 1864 after an administrative reform was introduced during the Tanzimat period. The Vilâyet Tripolitania replaced the Eyalet Tripolitania , which came under direct control of the Ottoman central government only in 1835 after the hereditary rule of the pashas from the Qaramanli family had ended. The Vilayet Tripolitania was the last directly administered Ottoman possession in North Africa.

With the Battle of Tripoli in 1911 in the costly Italo-Turkish War , the Vilayet Tripolitania was lost to the Kingdom of Italy . On October 18, 1911, the area was occupied and annexed militarily by Italy. It was converted into the Italian Libya colony in 1934 .