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  1. Former province of Libya, stretching from
  2. Cyrenaica in the E to Tunisia in the W. Italy
  3. captured it from Turkey 1912, and the British
  4. captured it from Italy 1942 and controlled it
  5. until the formation of the newly independent
  6. United Kingdom of Libya 1951. In 1963
  7. Tripolitania was subdivided into
  8. administrative divisions.
  9.