anti-French protests in Rome, the Italian foreign minister, Galeazzo Ciano, demanded the cession of French Somaliland to Italy. Speaking in the Chamber of Deputies...
The Italian invasion of British Somaliland (3–19 August 1940) was part of the East African campaign (1940–1941) in which Italian, Eritrean and Somali forces...
modern Somaliland. During its existence, the territory was bordered by Italian Somalia, French Somali Coast and Abyssinia (temporarily Italian Ethiopia)...
Italo-Ethiopian War through the merger of ItalianSomaliland, Italian Eritrea, and the newly occupied Ethiopian Empire. Italian East Africa was divided into six...
Italian Eritrea (Italian: Colonia Eritrea, "Colony of Eritrea") was a colony of the Kingdom of Italyin the territory of present-day Eritrea. The first...
Africa, forming what would become ItalianSomaliland. However, Italy coveted Ethiopia itself and, in 1887, Italian Prime Minister Agostino Depretis ordered...
private Italian company called SACI) of this coastal area around Mogadishu, and created the colony of ItalianSomaliland. From the outset, the Italians signed...
Italian Empire after 1906, British Military Administration of Somalia after World War II and the Trust Territory of Somaliland administered by Italy in...
Italian Cyrenaica (Italian: Cirenaica Italiana; Arabic: برقة الايطالیة) was an Italian colony, located in present-day eastern Libya, that existed from...
Dawa. During World War II, in the summer of 1940 Italian armed forces completed the Italian conquest of British Somaliland. By the spring of 1941, the...
important role in the foreign policy of Fascist Italy. Among the regime's goals were the acquisition of territory considered historically Italianin France (e...
of colonial governors of Italian Eritrea ItalianSomaliland List of colonial governors of ItalianSomaliland History of Ethiopia History of Eritrea History...
of the coast, and established the colony of ItalianSomaliland. In southern parts of Somalia, the Italians fought a decades-long war, dubbed the Banadir...
commercial centre in the 19th century after the construction of the Ethio-Djibouti Railways, the first railwayin French Somaliland. The railway reached this...
raised gendarmerie units in the Italian colonies of Italian Tripolitania, Italian Cyrenaica, Italian Eritrea and ItalianSomaliland between 1889 and 1942...
of Italians from 1914 to 1920, when it was disbanded. Only a few dozen Italian soldiers & sailors—under direct orders of the Italian governors in Tianjin—remained...
Sultans. During the ensuing period, it served as the capital of French Somaliland and its successor the French Territory of the Afars and Issas. There is...
Somali: Barbara, Arabic: بربرة) is the capital of the Sahil region of Somaliland and is the main sea port of the country, located approximately 160 km...
The Eritrean Railway is the only railway system in Eritrea. It was constructed between 1887 and 1932 during the Italian Eritrea colony and connects the...
The Italian concession of Tianjin (Chinese: 天津意租界; pinyin: Tiānjīn Yì Zūjiè, Italian: Concessione italiana di Tientsin) was a small territory (concession)...
Italian Tripolitania was an Italian colony, located in present-day western Libya, that existed from 1911 to 1934. It was part of the territory conquered...
The Italian Islands of the Aegean (Italian: Isole italiane dell'Egeo; Greek: Ἰταλικαὶ Νῆσοι Αἰγαίου Πελάγους; Turkish: Ege'deki İtalyan Adaları) were an...