Italian Empire
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The Italian colonial empire, sometimes known as the Italian Empire, was a colonial empire that existed between 1882 and 1960. It comprised the colonies, protectorates, concessions and dependencies of
Francesco Crispi promoted Italian colonialism in Africa in the late 1800s.
Italian settlement at Assab, 1880
Italian soldiers and Eritrean askaris defeating Mahdists at Agordat during the Mahdist War, 1893
Italian possessions and spheres of influence in the Horn of Africa in 1896
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