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Italian invasion of Libya (1911)
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Oct 1911 — Italy lands at Tripoli to seize the Ottoman Empire’s last provinces in North Africa. On 1 November an Italian pilot drops grenades on Ottoman camps nearby, the first bombs ever dropped from an aeroplane in war. Ottoman weakness invites the Balkan states to strike.
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- Bosnian crisis and the Balkan Wars (chapter 2 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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