Italian East Africa (Italian: Africa Orientale Italiana, or AOI) was a short-lived (1936-1941) Italian colony in Africa consisting of Ethiopia (recently occupied after the Second Italo-Abyssinian War) and the established colonies of Italian Somaliland and Eritrea held in the name of Victor Emmanuel III of the Kingdom of Italy. In August 1940, British Somaliland was conquered and annexed to Italian East Africa. However, Ethiopia had successfully r...
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Italian East Africa (Italian: Africa Orientale Italiana, or AOI) was a short-lived (1936-1941) Italian colony in Africa consisting of Ethiopia (recently occupied after the Second Italo-Abyssinian War) and the established colonies of Italian Somaliland and Eritrea held in the name of Victor Emmanuel III of the Kingdom of Italy. In August 1940, British Somaliland was conquered and annexed to Italian East Africa. However, Ethiopia had successfully repelled repeated foreign occupations and was never colonized.
The other Italian colony in Africa was Italian North Africa (Africa Settentrionale Italiana, or ASI).
In 1936, Italian East Africa covered some of present-day Ethiopia, Eritrea, and the former Italian Somaliland. The colony was divided into six provinces: Amara, Eritrea, Galla-Sidamo, Harar, Scioa and Italian Somaliland, each run by an Italian governor. Each governor was answerable to the Italian viceroy. Italian East Africa briefly enlarged in 1940, as Italian forces conquered...
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