Question: The town of Rila is located in this country that is part of the history of an empire. Who was leader of the European state that seized Libya from this empire in 1911?

<P0-S0> Following the Allied victory in the Second World War, Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain. <P0-S1> The countries in Southeastern Europe were dominated by the Soviet Union and became communist states. <P0-S2> The major non-communist Southern European countries joined a US-led military alliance (NATO) and formed the European Economic Community amongst themselves. <P0-S3> The countries in the Soviet sphere of influence joined the military alliance known as the Warsaw Pact and the economic bloc called Comecon. <P0-S4> Yugoslavia was neutal. <P0-S5> The Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, and along with Mussolini's Italy sought to gain control of the continent by the Second World War. <SEP> <P1-S0> As a result of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), the Principality of Bulgaria, a self-governing Ottoman vassal state that was functionally independent, was created. <P1-S1> In 1885 the autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia came under the control of the Bulgarian Tsar. <P1-S2> The history of Ottoman Bulgaria spans nearly 500 years, from the conquest by the Ottoman Empire of the smaller kingdoms emerging from the disintegrating Second Bulgarian Empire in the late 14th century, to the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878. <P1-S3> Bulgaria declared independence in 1908. <SEP> <P2-S0> Rila (, pronounced ) is a town in southwestern Bulgaria, in Rila Municipality, part of Kyustendil Province. <P2-S1> It is the administrative centre of Rila Municipality, which lies in the southeastern part of Kyustendil Province. <SEP> <P3-S0> from childhood, gaddafi was aware of the involvement of european colonialists in libya; his nation was occupied by italy, and during the north african campaign of world war ii it witnessed conflict between italian and british troops. <P3-S1> according to later claims, gaddafi's paternal grandfather, abdessalam bouminyar, was killed by the italian army during the italian invasion of 1911. at world war ii's end in 1945, libya was occupied by british and french forces. <P3-S2> although britain and france intended on dividing the nation between their empires, the general assembly of the united nations (un) declared that the country be granted political independence. <P3-S3> in 1951, the un created the united kingdom of libya, a federal state under the leadership of a pro-western monarch, idris, who banned political parties and established an absolute monarchy. <SEP> <P4-S0> These provinces together formed what became known as Libya. <P4-S1> As a result of this conflict, the Ottoman Turks ceded the provinces of Tripolitania, Fezzan, and Cyrenaica to Italy. <SEP> <P5-S0> libya (; ; ), officially the state of libya, is a country in the maghreb region in north africa, bordered by the mediterranean sea to the north, egypt to the east, sudan to the southeast, chad to the south, niger to the southwest, algeria to the west, and tunisia to the northwest. <P5-S1> the sovereign state is made of three historical regions: tripolitania, fezzan and cyrenaica. <P5-S2> with an area of almost , libya is the fourth largest country in africa, and is the 16th largest country in the world. <P5-S3> libya has the 10th-largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world. <P5-S4> the largest city and capital, tripoli, is located in western libya and contains over one million of libya's six million people. <P5-S5> the second-largest city is benghazi, which is located in eastern libya.