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[Aslı Trablusgarb vali ve kumandan sabık müşir Ibrahim paşa hazretleri tarafından bizzat tersim ve cemiyetimize ahdolunup cemiyetçe donanma menfaatine tab ettirilmiştir / An Original [Map] of Tripoli, Made Personally by the Governor and Commander of Tripoli, Former Marshal Ibrahim Pasha, and was Committed to Our Association, and was made Available for the Benefit of the Navy by the Society]

[Istanbul]: Donanma-yı Osmanî Muavenet-i Millîye Cemiyeti [Ottoman Navy Association] 1237 [1911].

Ibrahim Hakki Pasha (Turkish: İbrahim Hakkı Paşa, 1862–1918), was an ambassador in Italy from 1908 until 1910 and a Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1910 until 1911.

Between August 1910 to 1911 Ibrahim Hakki served a vali and governor of Tripoli. It was probably in the time, that he commissioned this map, showcasing the city with all the important buildings with the intent to present this large Mediterranean port center under the Ottoman rule to the other inhabitants of the empire, possible for purposes of trade.

As the former ambassador in Italy, Ibrahim Hakki understood the diplomatic and economic relationship with the Apennine Peninsula and tried to avoid conflicts with Italy. On the eve of the Italo-Turkish War, he was dismissed of his position of vali and governor of Tripoli and at the same time he resigned as the Grand Vizier. After that he moved to London and from 1915 on he served as an ambassador in Berlin, where he died in 1918.

The Italo-Turkish War lasted between September 29, 1911, to October 18, 1912, . As a result of this conflict the Ottoman Empire lost the Tripolitania Vilayet with Tripoli to Italy.

We could not trace any examples of the map in Western institutions nor any references to it in the literature on Ottoman cartography.