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Governor-General of Italian Libya
Governatore Generale della Libia italiana
Coat of arms of Italian Libya
Longest serving Italo Balbo 1 January 1934 – 28 June 1940
Reports to	King of Italy
Residence	Governor-General's Palace, Tripoli
Precursor	Governor of Italian Tripolitania Governor of Italian Cyrenaica
Formation	1 January 1934
First holder	Italo Balbo
Final holder	Giovanni Messe
Abolished	13 May 1943
Succession	Allied administrators of Libya

This article lists the governors-general of Italian Libya, a colony of the Italian Empire from 1934 to 1943.

List

No.	Portrait	Governor-General	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Defence branch
1		Balbo, ItaloMarshal of the Air Italo Balbo (1896–1940)	1 January 1934	28 June 1940 †	6 years, 179 days	Regia Aeronautica
2		Graziani, RodolfoMarshal Rodolfo Graziani (1882–1955)	1 July 1940	25 March 1941	267 days	Royal Italian Army
3		Gariboldi, ItaloGeneral Italo Gariboldi (1879–1970)	25 March 1941	19 July 1941	116 days	Royal Italian Army
4		Bastico, EttoreMarshal Ettore Bastico (1876–1972)	19 July 1941	2 February 1943	1 year, 198 days	Royal Italian Army
–		Messe, GiovanniGeneral Giovanni Messe (1883–1968) Acting	2 February 1943	13 May 1943	100 days	Royal Italian Army

Timeline

See also

Footnotes

Although Pietro Badoglio was uniquely governor of Tripolitania (including Fezzan) and Cyrenaica from 1929 to 1933, Libya became a united province under Balbo.
Replaced in the aftermath of Operation Compass, during the Western Desert campaign of World War II.

References

"International Boundary Study No. 3 (Revised) – December 15, 1978 Chad – Libya Boundary" (PDF). The Geographer Office of the Geographer Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2007.

External links

World Statesmen – Libya

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