Battle of Tripoli (1911)

Battle of Tripoli
	Part of the Italo-Turkish War
	; Italian Navy landing sailors; on the beach of Tripoli
Date	3–10 October 1911
Location	Tripoli, Tripolitania, Ottoman Empire (now Libya)32°53′14.02″N 13°11′28.84″E
Result	Italian victory Italians occupy Tripoli;
Belligerents
Italy	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Luigi Faravelli; Umberto Cagni	Neshat Bey
Strength
1,700 troops; 4 battleships; 4 armoured cruisers; 1 protected cruiser	3,000 troops; 1 gunboat

The Battle of Tripoli was fought in October 1911, during the initial stages of the Italo-Turkish War, and saw the capture of Tripoli, capital city of Tripolitania (and present-day Libya), by Italian landing forces. It marked the beginning of the land campaign in Libya of the Italo-Turkish War as well as the beginning of the Italian colonization of Libya.

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