Italy negatively influenced Libya while having control over the territory. When the Ottomans took control of the territory, it was divided into three provinces: Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and Fezzan. Then the Italians reorganized their new colony as Libya with four provinces: Tripoli, Misrata, Benghazi and Darnah. Fezzan was renamed Southern Tripolitania and remained a military territory. Italy found a very complicated political situation in Libya with the exodus of the Ottomans. They found it difficult to extend their authority beyond the coastal cities because Arab nationalism was a largely urban movement, the Bedouin tribes of the interior were passionate about Islam, and none were subservient to Italian rule. During the First World War, which followed the Italian-Turkish War of 1914, Italy sided with the Central Powers, and then switched to the Allied side in 1915. Libyan nationalists were divided during the First World War because some favored the British and others favored the Ottomans because they were Muslim like Libya. However, since Britain was Italy's ally, the pro-British people of Libya began to dislike Britain for being an ally of their terrible colonial ruler. The result of this conflict was the First Italo-Sanusi War. This became part of World War I because it forced the Allies to deploy 110,000 British, French and Italian soldiers. 1 For Libya, the aim of the struggle against the colonial power was to defend Islam and the free life they had always enjoyed in their tribal territory.2 The Sanusi tribes supported by the Ottomans rose up against the Italians in November 1915. The units Sanusi effectively resisted the Italians in Cyrenaica and Fezzan, but there was no group like the Sanusi in Tripolitania, and therefore the Italians were more...... middle of paper...... however, they were made mainly to promote the effort to settle or extract Libyan natural resources. The Libyan Arabs did not benefit from Italian imperialism. Schools were built, but for the Italian settlers, not for the Arabs. The brutal repression of the Libyan resistance and the forced confiscation of Libyan lands to make way for Italian settlers were, of course, not publicized. Historical clothing for boys. Np, nd Web. 17 April 2014. lh-ita.html>. 2 4 "Italy Sanusi (Libya) War 1914-1917." World Wars. Np, nd Web. 3 May 2014. fitalosanusi1914.htm>. 5 Smitha, Frank E. “Africa and Imperialism.” Macrohistory and world chronology. Np, nd Web. May 1 2014. .