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title: Tripoli è italiana! (postcard)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tripoli-e-italiana-postcard-1912/
description: 'Photographic postcard under the headline ''Tripoli è italiana!'': a young woman in a mural crown, a national personification of Italy, holds a Savoy…'
section: Collection
---

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[![Tripoli è italiana! (postcard)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tripoli-e-italiana-postcard-1912.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tripoli-e-italiana-postcard-1912.jpg)

# Tripoli è italiana! (postcard)

Photographic postcard under the headline 'Tripoli è italiana!': a young woman in a mural crown, a national personification of Italy, holds a Savoy tricolour with the royal arms in front of a map of the peninsula whose railways and cities are marked, and the coast of 'Tripolitania' with Tripoli, Bengasi and Derna sits directly below it. The tell: the personified nation and the royal flag are set against a map that joins the two shores, so the new colony is shown as part of Italy's own outline.

- **Date:** 1912
- **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914)
- **Made by:** Italian commercial postcard publisher, series mark F.T.D. 3448 (issuer and photographer not named); made during the Italo-Turkish War, Kingdom of Italy
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [Kingdom of Italy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=kingdom-of-italy)
- **Medium:** [Postcard](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=postcard)
- **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed)
- **Regime:** [Giolitti Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=giolitti-government)
- **Leader:** [Giovanni Giolitti](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=giovanni-giolitti)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Commemorate](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=commemorate)
- **Themes:** [Empire and colonialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=empire-colonialism), [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military)
- **Event:** [Italo Turkish War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=italo-turkish-war)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (postcard scan credited to Delcampe and Alamy listings)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tripoli_%C3%A8_italiana!.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (Italian postcard c. 1912, unknown author; Commons tags PD-old-100-expired) Unknown author and publisher (series mark F.T.D. 3448), Italy, c. 1912; via Wikimedia Commons.

## Text on the object

Original (Italian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
TRIPOLI
è Italiana!

[map of Italy, city labels:] Venez[ia], Milano, Torino, Genova, Bologna, Pisa, Firenze, ROMA, Foggia, Napoli, Taranto, Palermo, Messina, Siracusa

[map of the Libyan coast:] Tripoli, Bengasi, Derna, TRIPOLITANIA, Mursuk, Ghat

[lower left:] F.T.D.
3448
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
TRIPOLI
is Italian!

[city labels: Venice, Milan, Turin, Genoa, Bologna, Pisa, Florence, ROME, Foggia, Naples, Taranto, Palermo, Messina, Syracuse]

[Libyan coast: Tripoli, Benghazi, Derna, TRIPOLITANIA, Murzuq, Ghat]

[lower left:] F.T.D. 3448
```

The 'Venez' label is cut by the map edge. Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

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