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
The Royal Corps Of Eritrean Colonial Troops were indigenous soldiers from Eritrea, who were enrolled as askaris in the Royal Corps of Colonial Troops of the Royal Italian Army during the colonial peri
Eritrean Ascaris in 1889
Luigi Lusignani in command of the XXVI Eritrean Battalion in Libya
Eritrean cavalry of the Italian colonial troops during the March of the Iron Will
Graves of unknown Ascaris killed in 1941 during the Battle of Keren