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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
Formation1 January 1934
First holder Italo Balbo
Final holder Giovanni Messe
Abolished13 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
Italo Balbo
Balbo, Italo Marshal of the Air
Italo Balbo
(1896–1940)
[a]		1 January 193428 June 1940 †6 years, 179 days  Regia Aeronautica
2
Rodolfo Graziani
Graziani, Rodolfo Marshal
Rodolfo Graziani
(1882–1955)		1 July 194025 March 1941 [b]267 days  Royal Italian Army
3
Italo Gariboldi
Gariboldi, ItaloGeneral
Italo Gariboldi
(1879–1970)		25 March 194119 July 1941116 days  Royal Italian Army
4
Ettore Bastico
Bastico, EttoreMarshal
Ettore Bastico
(1876–1972)		19 July 19412 February 19431 year, 198 days  Royal Italian Army
–
Giovanni Messe
Messe, GiovanniGeneral
Giovanni Messe
(1883–1968)
Acting		2 February 194313 May 1943100 days  Royal Italian Army

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Although Pietro Badoglio was uniquely governor of Tripolitania (including Fezzan) and Cyrenaica from 1929 to 1933, Libya became a united province under Balbo. [1]
  2. ^ Replaced in the aftermath of Operation Compass, during the Western Desert campaign of World War II.

References

  1. ^ "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

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