LA TUTELA DEL PATRIMONIO ARCHEOLOGICO NELLE ISOLE DELL'EGEO COLONIALE (1912-1945). IL RUOLO DEI MILITARI E DEI CARABINIERI

Drappello di CC.RR. stanziati a Bengasi nel 1911-1912. Su concessione Dir.B.S.D. Arma CC ©.

In the year in which the Kingdom of Italy celebrated its 50th anniversary, one of the last great colonial wars began in Libya, on which the colonialist elites had already based their expansionist ideas in the early 1900s, claiming a certain cultural heritage Roman, belonging to the Italian people. Imperialist fervor therefore leveraged the idea of Romanity with propaganda based on the "return of Rome" and of Italy, Rome's heir in Libya, directing public opinion in favor of a war that would favor the expulsion of Turkey from the territories of the Tripolitania belonged to the Roman province of Africa.