Battle of Tripoli (1911)

Battle of Tripoli
Part of the Italo-Turkish War
Italian Navy landing sailors on the beach of Tripoli
Date 3–10 October 1911 Location Tripoli, Tripolitania, Ottoman Empire (now Libya) 32°53′14.02″N 13°11′28.84″E / 32.8872278°N 13.1913444°E / 32.8872278; 13.1913444 Result Italian victory Italians occupy Tripoli
Belligerents
Italy	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Luigi Faravelli Umberto Cagni	Neshat Bey
Strength
1,700 troops 4 battleships 4 armoured cruisers 1 protected cruiser	3,000 troops 1 gunboat

The Battle of Tripoli was fought in October 1911, during the initial stages of the Italo-Turkish War, and saw the capture of Tripoli, capital city of Tripolitania (and present-day Libya), by Italian landing forces. It marked the beginning of the land campaign in Libya of the Italo-Turkish War as well as the beginning of the Italian colonization of Libya.