Italian Colonial Empire

>>2478497

Let me put it this way. Perhaps the most significant factor in how the North African campaign of WW2 went down was that there were 0 kilometers of railroad track in Libya. Not a one. It meant that it was extremely difficult to move armies of any size around there, because the supplies that they depended on had to be brought up by camel or motor vehicle, neither of which was easy to do.

Everyone else managed to get railroads in their colonies. Egypt had them. Tunisia and Morrocco had them. But the Italians couldn't get them in theirs, because Italy was as shit at colonial administration as they were about everything else.

lt was expensive and pointless. Instead of developing poorer parts of Italy like the South, Italian governments threw a good chunk of cash trying to settle poor Italian colonists to Africa, but pretty much no one wanted to live there. Italians did urbanize Libya a bit. lots of new stuff was built during their rule, but it was basically for nothing,

Italian colonists were settled in relatively larger numbers only in Eritrea. Today a handful of Italo-Eritreans exists, but most returned to Italy.

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It was okay, but they didn't have enough resources to properly develop their own country so no way they could have done much about african colonies.

Still, italian colonial buildings are nice and are still around as the best areas in somalia, which is africa tier by africa standards