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Sciara -- not Sciarra See web.ticino.com/gianno/photo.htm for pictures of the Italian occupation of Tripoli (Libya), starting at web.ticino.com/gianno/nuova_pagina_7.htm

Thanks for the information.

Wikipedia article about Italo-Turkish War en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Turkish_War

WOW...so different from the Tripoli I visited in November...amazing... -- Seen in your News in the 1910s set. (?)

WOW...so different from the Tripoli I visited in November...amazing... Underdevelopment of you sent to us, we opened Al-Andalus and all those cities and excelling in the field of medicine and other magazines, and you do not know the wine industry, but in Rome and other Sunt din Libia, mă mulţumesc şi cu imagini

this is from a brief "war" preceding WWI photo would be in early October 1912 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Turkish_War

This would most likely have been during the bombardment of Derna by Pisa and other Italian ships between October 15 and 18, 1912.

Thank you for your information about this photo. It does appear to be related to the Italo-Turkish War. We will update the source data and reload the description.

Is it possible that the four towers visible in the background are oil drills?

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More on the Pisa and Italian Pisa class armored battle cruisers:www.cityofart.net/bship/rn_garibaldi.html (scroll down)

Pisa served in WWI, then was reclassified as a coastal battleship in 1921 and used as a training ship until being scrapped in 1937.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisa_class_armored_cruiser
Her sister ship, sold to Greece as the Georgios Averof, is the only remaining armored battle cruiser of this era and is a museum ship, at Faliro, Greece, near Athens.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_cruiser_Georgios_Averof