Commemorative Medals, Foreign Medals, Italy, Italian-Turkish War, 1911-1912, small bronze memorial medal to the fallen at Tripoli, 1911, Italian soldier stands over fallen Turk, rev. memorial, 26mm.; another, Victory overlooks Tripoli harbour, rev. legend on tablet, 24mm., both with integral suspension loops, very fine, very rare (2)
In the Italian-Turkish War, Italy defeated Turkey and took possession of the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean and Tripoli/Libya in North Africa.
(250-300 GBP)