Motto: Per l'onore d'Italia "For the honour of Italy"
Anthem:Marcia Reale d'Ordinanza "Royal March of Ordinance" Marcia Reale
Status
Colony of Italy
Capital
Asmara
Common languages
Italian (official) Italian Eritrean, Tigrinya, Tigre, Kunama, Nara, Saho, Bilen, Hejazi
Religion
Catholicism Oriental Orthodoxy Islam
Government
Italian Colonial Government
King
• 1882–1900
Umberto I
• 1900–1936
Victor Emmanuel III
Governor
• 1890 (first)
Baldassarre Orero
• 1935–1936 (last)
Pietro Badoglio
Historical era
New Imperialism
• Purchase of Assab
15 November 1869
• Government control
5 July 1882
• Expansion into Eritrea
5 February 1885
• Treaty of Wuchale
2 May 1889
• Colony of Eritrea
1 January 1890
• Part of Italian East Africa
1 June 1936
• British occupation
19 May 1941
• Relinquished by Italy
10 February 1947
• End of British occupation
15 September 1952
Currency
Eritrean tallero (1890–1921) Italian lira (1921–36)
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Ethiopian Empire
Khedivate of Egypt
Italian East Africa
Today part of
Eritrea
Italian Eritrea (Italian: Colonia Eritrea, "Colony of 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, which came under government control in 1882. Occupation of Massawa in 1885 and the subsequent expansion of territory would gradually engulf the region and in 1889 borders with the Ethiopian Empire were defined in the Treaty of Wuchale. In 1890 the Colony of Eritrea was officially founded.
In 1936 the region was integrated into Italian East Africa as the Eritrea Governorate. This would last until Italy's loss of the region in 1941, during the East African campaign of World War II. Italian Eritrea then came under British military administration, which in 1951 fell under United Nations supervision. In September 1952 it became an autonomous part of Ethiopia, until its independence in 1991.
ItalianEritrea (Italian: Colonia Eritrea, "Colony of Eritrea") was a colony of the Kingdom of Italy in the territory of present-day Eritrea. The first...
descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Eritrea during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in Eritrea. Their ancestry dates back...
(Tigray-Province)). Ferrovia EritreaEritrean Railway (in Italian) Atlas of Eritrea About Eritrea (in Italian) Key Development Forecasts for Eritrea from International...
Italian Pidgin in Eritrea (or ItalianEritrean, as is often called) was a pidgin language used in ItalianEritrea when Eritrea was a colony of Italy (and...
Religion in Eritrea consists of a number of faiths. The two major religions in Eritrea are Christianity and Islam. However, the number of adherents of...
merger of Italian Somaliland, ItalianEritrea, and the newly occupied Ethiopian Empire. Italian East Africa was divided into six governorates. Eritrea and Somalia...
Soviet Union, anticipating an Italian Communist Party victory in the Italian polls, initially supported returning Eritrea to Italy under trusteeship or as a...
capital of ItalianEritrea. Under Italian rule the city of Asmara experienced rapid urbanization and modernization. According to Eritrean Tigrinya oral...
Eritreans are the native inhabitants of Eritrea, as well as the global diaspora of Eritrea. Eritreans constitute several component ethnic groups, some...
Italian cuisines, shares similarities with the cuisine of neighboring Ethiopia and the cuisines from other African countries in the region. Eritrean cuisine...
the Italian administration and military training in Eritrea The Italian Army made extensive use of locally recruited indigenous soldiers in Italian East...
ItalianEritrean cuisine is the mix of Eritrean dishes and spices with Italian dishes. This kind of cuisine is quite common with Eritreans in Eritrea...
24 May 1991. Eritrea was an Italian colony from the 1880s until the defeat of the Italians by the Allies of World War II in 1941, Eritrea then briefly...
Eritreans in Italy are residents of Italy who were born in Eritrea or are of Eritrean descent. According to the United Nations, there were 13,592 Eritrean...
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Italian East Africa List of governors-general of Italian East Africa Italian Ethiopia ItalianEritrea List of colonial governors of ItalianEritrea Italian...
The Ethiopian–Eritrean Federation was a coalition between the former Italian colony of Eritrea and the Ethiopian Empire. It was established as a result...
about 18,000 speakers as of 2006. Italian was introduced in the 19th century by the colonial authorities in ItalianEritrea but is now used in commerce at...
are also a number of Italians who speak their native Italian language. The majority of the Tigrinya inhabit the highlands of Eritrea; however, migration...
Eritrea was a colonial ship of the Italian Regia Marina constructed in the Castellammare Shipyards near Napoli. Construction started in 1935 and she was...
provinces had their own local laws since the 13th century. In ItalianEritrea, the Italian colonial administration had divided the colony into eight provinces...
The Eritrean Railway is the only railway system in Eritrea. It was constructed between 1887 and 1932 during the ItalianEritrea colony and connects the...
Massawa to Italy to form the colony of ItalianEritrea, and – at least, according to the Italian version of the treaty – made Ethiopia an Italian protectorate...
the Italian Colony of Eritrea in 1890, following the expansion of Italian occupation in the area since in 1882. The borders between ItalianEritrea and...
served. In addition, Eritrean cuisine has a lot of Italian dishes from the ItalianEritrean cuisine introduced during ItalianEritrea. It is more common...
Ge'ez: ምጽዋ; Arabic: مَصَّوَع; Italian: Massaua; Portuguese: Maçuá) is a port city in the Northern Red Sea region of Eritrea, located on the Red Sea at the...
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