French military administration in Fezzan
The Military Territory of Fezzan-Ghadames was a territory in the southern part of the former Italian colony of Libya controlled by the French from 1943 until Libyan independence in 1951. It was part of the Allied administration of Libya.
Free French forces from French Chad occupied the area that was the former Italian Southern Military Territory in 1943, and made several requests to annex administratively their Fezzan to the French colonial empire. The administrative personnel remained the former Italian bureaucrats.
Fezzan joined Tripolitania and Cyrenaica to form the Kingdom of Libya on 24 December 1951. It was the first country to achieve independence through the United Nations and one of the first former European possessions in Africa to gain independence.
