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Italian East Africa ( Italian: Africa Orientale Italiana) was an Italian colony in Africa. It was conquered in the 1930s during Benito Mussolini's reign in Italy and lost at the end of the North African Campaign of World War II. The Second Italo-Abyssinian War played a key role in the absorption of Ethiopia into Italian East Africa.
It included recently conquered Ethiopia, Italian Somaliland and Eritrea. Occasionally Libya (at the time another Italian colony) was referred to as being part of Italian East Africa, but this was not common.
During the Second World War, the Italian army recruited many thousands of native Africans from the colony to fight against the British in the East African Campaign. Due to poor training, incompetent leadership and inadequate supplies and arms, Italian native troops were usually defeated in the face of the enemy. In the mapFor alternative meanings see Map (disambiguation A map is a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional space. The science of making maps is called cartography. Introduction Mapmaking dates back at least to the Stone Age and appears to predate w below, the dark green shaded area is Italian East Africa as of 19411941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film). Events January January 6 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 Lend-Lease is introduced into the United St.
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