Misrata Governorate

[1] Initially in the 1930s was called "Provincia di Misurata" of Italian Libya.

it was one of the four provinces of Italian Libya, that were created in 1937 as a "Metropolitan region" of the Kingdom of Italy.

[6]) Most of the population was Muslim, but there was a growing community of Catholics due to the Italian colonists immigration.

It was one of the 4 new Italian provinces of the so-called Quarta Sponda (4th shore) of Mussolini's Greater Italia.

Indeed, on January 9, 1939, the colony of Italian Libya was incorporated into "metropolitan Italy" and thereafter considered an integral part of the Italian state (the French, in 1848, had incorporated French Algeria in the same manner).