Italian East Africa

noun

1. a former Italian territory in E Africa, formed in 1936 by the merging of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland with newly conquered Ethiopia: taken by the British Imperial forces 1941.

Italian East Africa

noun

1. a former Italian territory in E Africa, formed in 1936 from the possessions of Eritrea, Italian Somaliland, and Ethiopia: taken by British forces in 1941

Example Sentences

I know I didn’t, perhaps for the good reason that in 1936 — a year after the Mapparium opened — Italian Somaliland merged with Italian Eritrea and the newly occupied Ethiopian Empire to become Italian East Africa.

From Washington Post

Demographers designed a vast census of the tribes that would allow for the compilation of a massive “ethnographic atlas” of Italian East Africa, and colonial experts displayed their classification of East Africa’s “racial types” in periodicals such as Etiopia and Africa Italiana.

From Slate

In still other cases Italians have been shipped to Spain from Italian East Africa, or have been "sent" to Italian East Africa only to find themselves disembarking at Cadiz.

From Time Magazine Archive

Defense measures were taken as far away from the probable scene of action as Kenya, in equatorial Africa, which is, however, next door to Italian East Africa.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Mussolini's heyday it became a bridgehead for his conquest of Italian East Africa.

From Time Magazine Archive