JUL 2, reprehensible modern history: Turco-Italian War

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2020: political palindromes, FFF (wordplay)
2021: Canadiana, real Eastern towns (wordplay maps) 
2022: American satire, unhinged (illustrated poem)
2023: American satire, Latin States 1 (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Jul 2, 2024): 

Authors' Note: The Italo-Turkish War, also known as the Turco-Italian War, 1911–1912, was among the neo-colonial adventures pushed by the European powers (Britain, France, Italy, etc.) who took advantage of the decline of Ottoman Turkey just before the outbreak of the First World War. The territories conquered by the Italians (most of current-day Libya and also the Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea) remained under their control through the Second World War, with Mussolini's National Fascist party in power in the Kingdom of Italy for most of this period (1922–1943).

The treaty to end the conflict was named after the resort facility in Lausanne, Switzerland at which it was signed by the belligerents, becoming known as the Treaty of Ouchy (oo-SHEE).

 

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