Italian East Africa
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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
Ethiopia
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Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to
Italian East Africa
…legacy on local attitudes in both Eritrea and Somalia, strengthening emerging forms of national consciousness. The question of the boundary between Ethiopia and Somalia was not satisfactorily resolved before Somali independence and became a persistent source of tension. This was largely due to the Pan-Somali…
A Homo sapiens idaltu hominid skull
Aksumite currency of the Aksumite king Endybis (227–235), British Museum
Biete Medhane Alem, built during Zagwe dynasty in the Middle Ages
A copy of 17th century philosophical and ethical treatise by Ethiopian philosopher Zara Yaqob