Italian East Africa
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Italian East Africa 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.
Abyssinian nobles Seyoum Mengesha, Getachew Abate and Kebbede Guebret submit to Benito Mussolini in February 1937.
Italian East African 100 lira banknote
The Italian-era Ethiopian electric power corporation building, Addis Ababa
Asmara station on the Eritrean Railway in 1938, with passengers boarding a Littorina
Italian Empire
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The Italian colonial empire, also known as the Italian Empire between 1936 and 1941, was founded in Africa in the 19th century and it comprised the colonies, protectorates, concessions and dependencies of the Kingdom of Italy. In Africa, the colonial empire included the territories of present-day Libya, Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia ; outside Africa, Italy possessed the Dodecanese Islands, Albania and also had a concession in Tianjin, China.
Francesco Crispi promoted Italian colonialism in Africa in the late 1800s.
Italian possessions and spheres of influence in the Horn of Africa in 1896
Italian troops during the Italo-Turkish War, 1911.
The flag of Italy shown hanging alongside an Albanian flag from the balcony of the Italian prefecture in Vlorë, Albania during World War I