Benghazi Province

In ten years they built all these infrastructures and by the early 1930s a new port & airport and a railways station were created in Benghazi.

Indeed in those years in Benghazi were created -for the first time in Cyrenaica's History- the first manufacturing industries, that included salt processing, oil refining, food processing, cement manufacturing, tanning, brewing and sponge and tuna fishing.

[2] In the late 1930s in the Benghazi province were settled thousands of Italians as farmers in special villages.

[4] In the late 1930s the province had a huge economic development, mainly in agriculture and commerce, but World War II destroyed it.

According to the 1936 census, which allowed citizens to declare their ethnicity, Benghazi's native population was made up of 95.8% Arabs, 0.3% Turks, 0.3% Blacks, 0.2% Berbers, and 3.6% Others.