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Italian controlled territory. Kingdom of Italy. Italian East Africa (Italian: Africa Orientale Italiana, AOI) [ 3 ] was an Italian colony in the Horn of Africa. It was formed in 1936 after the Second Italo-Ethiopian War through the merger of Italian Somaliland, Italian Eritrea, and the newly occupied Ethiopian Empire.
The East African campaign (also known as the Abyssinian campaign) was fought in East Africa during the Second World War by Allies of World War II, mainly from the British Empire, against Italy and its colony of Italian East Africa, between June 1940 and November 1941. The British Middle East Command with troops from the United Kingdom, South ...
The Order of battle of the East African campaign shows the ground forces of both sides in East Africa on the date that the Italians declared war on Britain and France, 10 June 1940 and for the British and Commonwealth forces involved in the 1941 offensive.
[a] The King of Italy (Victor Emmanuel III) was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia and the Italians created an Italian empire in Africa (Italian East Africa) with Ethiopia, Eritrea and Italian Somalia in spring 1936. In 1937 Mussolini boasted that, with his conquest of Ethiopia, "finally Adua was avenged". The Italians decreed miscegenation to be ...
The six provinces of Italian East Africa. On 10 May 1936, Italian troops from the northern front and from the southern front met at Dire Dawa. [101] The Italians found the recently released Ethiopian Ras, Hailu Tekle Haymanot, who boarded a train back to Addis Ababa and approached the Italian invaders in submission. [102]
The Italian colonial empire (Italian: Impero coloniale italiano), also known as the Italian Empire (Impero italiano) between 1936 and 1941, was founded in Africa in the 19th century. It comprised the colonies, protectorates, concessions and dependencies of the Kingdom of Italy. In Africa, the colonial empire included the territories of present ...
1,428 wounded [8] 3,865 captured [9][10] ~10,000 killed [11] The First Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the First Italo-Abyssinian War, or simply in Italy as the Abyssinian War (Italian: Guerra d'Abissinia), was a war fought between Italy and Ethiopia from 1895 to 1896. It originated from the disputed Treaty of Wuchale, which the ...
9 May 1936. First holder. Pietro Badoglio. Final holder. Guglielmo Nasi. Abolished. 27 November 1941. This article lists the governors-general of Italian East Africa, a colony of the Italian Empire from 1936 to 1941. The Governor-General of Italian East Africa was also Viceroy of Italian Ethiopia.
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