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[[File:AfricaMap1.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|Map showing "Via della Vittoria" from Bardia to Sidi Barrani (click to enlarge)]]<br />
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The '''Via della Vittoria''' was a military road between [[Bardia]] in [[Italian Libya]] and [[Sidi Barrani]] in western [[Egypt]].<br />
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== Characteristics ==<br />
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The "Via della Vittoria" (Victory Road), was built by [[Italy|Italian]] [[engineer]]s during [[World War II]], between September and December 1940. The road went from [[Sidi Barrani]], [[Egypt]], to the border of [[Italian Libya]] and connected to the [[Libyan Coastal Highway|Via Balbia]]. It was {{convert|11|m|yd}} wide and asphalted.<br />
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It was officially called ''Via della Vittoria nell'Africa Settentrionale Italiana'' in order to distinguish it from another "Via della Vittoria" built in 1939 in Ethiopia/Africa Orientale Italiana.<ref>[http://dprs.uniroma1.it/sites/default/files/16.html Le strade italiane in Africa Orientale Italiana (in Italian)]</ref><br />
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== History ==<br />
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The Italian Army invaded Egypt in summer 1940 and penetrated until Sidi Barrani. The need of communication in order to supply the Army forced the construction of this new road.{{sfn|Hall|2015|p=281}}<br />
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{{Quotation|Proceeding in an orderly, colonial fashion, the Italian commander in Egypt, General Mario Berti, deployed the advanced units of his Army (1st and 2nd Libyan, 3 January Blackshirt, Cirene and Catanzaro Divisions, as well as Maletti’s motorised brigade group) in a ring of strong-points around Sidi Barrani, and began work on extending the Via Balbia into Egypt....|Edmund Hall{{sfn|Hall|2015|p=281}}}}<br />
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In fall 1940 Italian Marshal [[Rodolfo Graziani]] ordered his Army in western Egypt to complete this new coastal road extending the Via Balbia {{convert|60|mi|km|sigfig=1|order=flip}} inside Egypt, even in order to create an infrastructure for a planned Italian invasion of the [[Nile Delta]] in January/February 1941.<br />
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In December 1940 the new road was used by the [[United Kingdom|British]] forces during [[Operation Compass]]. In the next two years the road was damaged by the continuous changes in the [[front (military)|front]] between [[Axis powers|Axis]] forces under [[Erwin Rommel]] and the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]].<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[North African campaign]]<br />
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* {{cite report|last=Hall|first=E. |title=The Italian Army in Egypt during World War II |year=2015 |publisher=Egypt Study Circle |location=UK |url=http://egyptstudycircle.org.uk/Articles/p280QC223.pdf |access-date=30 March 2022}}<br />
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{{Italian colonial empire}}<br />
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[[Category:Roads in Egypt]]<br />
[[Category:Roads in Libya]]<br />
[[Category:Italian fascist architecture]]<br />
[[Category:Libya in World War II]]<br />
[[Category:Italian Cyrenaica]]<br />
[[Category:Western Desert campaign]]<br />
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