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    Italian East Africa (Italian: Africa Orientale Italiana, AOI) was an Italian colony in the Horn of Africa. It was formed in 1936 after the Second Italo-Ethiopian...
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    Orientale Italiana) in Eritrea and Ethiopia. On 1 June 1940, Amedeo, Duke of Aosta the Viceroy and Governor-General of the Africa Orientale Italiana (AOI...
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    and Ethiopia (the last three being officially named "Africa Orientale Italiana", AOI); outside Africa, Italy possessed the Dodecanese Islands (following...
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    Italian Ethiopia (category Italian East Africa)
    Galla-Sidamo, and Scioa after the establishment of Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana, AOI). After the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, in which Ethiopia...
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    The Italian East African lira was a special banknote circulating in Italian East Africa (Italian: Africa Orientale Italiana, AOI) between 1938 and 1941...
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    Italian invasion of British Somaliland (category Italian East Africa)
    Benito Mussolini proclaimed the foundation of Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana, AOI), formed from the colonies of Italian Eritrea, Italian...
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    Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (category Italian East Africa)
    World War II, he was the Italian Viceroy of Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana, or AOI). Amedeo was born in Turin, Piedmont, to Prince Emanuele...
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     Zanzibar 1964 East Africa Zanzibar EC  Ecuador 1962 EQ Coincides with ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code. ER  Eritrea 1993 AOI Africa Orientale Italiana (Italian). Coincides...
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    The Italian colony of Italian East Africa (Italian: Africa Orientale Italiana) was composed of six governorates which made up the first level of country...
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    French Forces. Italian East Africa was defended by the Comando Forze Armate dell'Africa Orientale Italiana (Italian East African Armed Forces Command), with...
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    By 1936 however, Eritrea became a province of Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana), along with Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland. By 1941, Eritrea...
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  • was also appointed as Governor-General of Italian East Africa (AOI – Africa Orientale Italiana). The capital city of the Viceroy and Governor-General...
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  • Esercito nella seconda guerra mondiale#Divisioni coloniali - Africa Orientale Italiana: Supreme Commander FF AA AOI: Lieutenant-General Pietro Gazzera...
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    Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland the Italian East Africa (A.O.I., "Africa Orientale Italiana", also defined by the fascist government as L'Impero)...
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    Siege of Saïo (category Battles and operations of World War II involving South Africa)
    dictator Benito Mussolini proclaimed the colony of Africa Orientale Italiana (AOI, Italian East Africa), formed from Ethiopia (after the Italian victory...
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    Second Italo-Ethiopian War (category Italian East Africa)
    Italian government promulgated a constitution for Africa Orientale Italiana (AOI, Italian East Africa) bringing Ethiopia, Eritrea and Italian Somaliland...
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    war ended, Italian Somaliland became part of Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana) forming the Somalia Governorate. The new colony of the Italian...
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  • AOI Records, a record label created by De La Soul Africa Orientale Italiana, an Italian colony in Africa Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District...
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    stockpiled in Italian East Africa. They were predominately used by colonial troops. These are often marked AOI for Africa Orientale Italiana. Rifles captured by...
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    of Aosta, the Viceroy and Governor General of Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana, or AOI). All three Ethiopian leaders had submitted to Italian...
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  • B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Africa Orientale Italiana - "Italian East Africa", the colony of the Italian Empire composed of present-day...
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    Retrieved 30 May 2022. Consociazione Turistica Italiana (1938) Guida dell’ Africa Orientale Italiana, Milano, Italia. Appelhans, N. (2016). Urban Planning...
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    Battle of Amba Alagi (1941), during the East African campaign of World War II. Treccani: Africa orientale Italiane, section: "Governo e amministrazione...
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  • Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, calling the new state Africa Orientale Italiana (Italian East Africa). June 11: Marshal Graziani is appointed Viceroy of...
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    red, like the Italian flag, with the letters AOI (Africa Orientale Italiana) for Italian East Africa inside. The front plates resembled standard Italian...
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    for Military Operations in East Africa (Italian: Medaglia commemorativa delle operazioni militari in Africa Orientale) was a decoration established in...
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    Eritrea (category 1993 establishments in Africa)
    with the just-conquered Ethiopia in the new Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana) administrative territory. This fascist period was characterized...
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    World War II (category Wars involving South Africa)
    annexation into the newly created colony of Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana, or AOI); in addition it exposed the weakness of the League...
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    "Mussolini's colonial race laws and state-settler relations in Africa Orientale Italiana (1935–41)". Journal of Modern Italian Studies. 8 (3): 425–443...
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    Italian Eritreans (category Italian diaspora in Africa)
    Eritrea. Bradt. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-84162-171-5. "L'emigrazione italiana in Africa orientale" (PDF) (in Italian). Retrieved 12 March 2023. "Contenuti". Archived...
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