Italian East Africa (Italian: Africa Orientale Italiana, A.O.I.) was a colonial administrative entity of the Kingdom of Italy in the Horn of Africa that existed from 1936 to 1941. It was proclaimed by Benito Mussolini on 1 June 1936, following the conquest and annexation of Ethiopia during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
Italian East Africa (Italian: Africa Orientale Italiana, A.O.I.) was a colonial administrative entity of the Kingdom of Italy in the Horn of Africa that existed from 1936 to 1941. It was proclaimed by Benito Mussolini on 1 June 1936, following the conquest and annexation of Ethiopia during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
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