Italian East Africa was a colonial administrative entity of the Kingdom of Italy in the Horn of Africa that existed from 1936 to 1941. It was proclaimed by Benito Mussolini on 1 June 1936, following t
Mussolini and the fascist paramilitary Blackshirts' March on Rome in October 1922. Marshal De Bono, standing left of Mussolini, commanded Italian forces during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
The Abyssinian leaders Ras Seyoum Mengesha, Ras Getachew Abate and Ras Kebede Gebre received in Rome by Benito Mussolini on 6 February 1937
Mussolini Avenue in Asmara, 1938
Asmara station on the Eritrean Railway in 1938, with passengers boarding a Littorina
Eritrea was a colony of the Kingdom of Italy in the territory of present-day Eritrea. The first Italian establishment in the area was the purchase of Assab by the Rubattino Shipping Company in 1869, w
Eritrea in 1912
Italian settlement at Assab, 1880
Massawa railway station, from L’illustrazione popolare, 1890