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
- 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
- Country
- Kingdom of Italy
- Medium
- Postcard
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Giolitti Government
- Leader
- Giovanni Giolitti
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- Themes
- Empire and colonialism, War and the military
- Event
- Italo Turkish War
- 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), 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
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
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.
