Italian North Africa (Africa Settentrionale Italiana, or ASI) was the aggregate of territories and colonies controlled by Italy in North Africa from 1911 until World War II. In 1939, Benito Mussolini coined the name Fourth Shore, in Italian Quarta Sponda, to refer to coastal Italian Libya in Italian North Africa (later he added coastal Tunisia).
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