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Italian Ethiopia was a colony of the Kingdom of Italy in the territory of present-day Ethiopia. Although it was formally created in May 1936, the colony lasted only five years until May 1941 when the Allies conquered the Italian East Africa. However the colony officially lasted until 1947, when the Peace Treaty was signed. ==Characteristics & Data== Since May 1936 Italian Ethiopia was part of the newly created ''Africa Orientale Italiana'' (AOI), or Italian East Africa, and administratively was made of four governorates: Governorate of Amara, Governorate of Harrar, Governorate of Galla-Sidamo and Governorate of Shewa. Each Governorate was under the authority of an Italian governor, answerable to the Italian viceroy, who represented the Emperor Victor Emmanuel The territory around the capital was renamed in 1939 ''Governorate of Scioa'': originally it was called "Governorato di Addis Abeba", but in 1939 the name was changed to show the region of Scioa around the area of Addis Abeba. This was done because areas of the nearby governorates of Harrar, Gallo-Sidamo and Amhara were included in it. The "Governorate of Scioa" was the only area of former Ethiopia fully pacified and rid of Ethiopian guerrilla in 1939, that allowed a huge development of infrastructures (roads, buildings, etc..) with the creation of a state-of-the-art "Addis Abeba Urbanistic and Architectural Plan" 〔(Addis Abeba 1939 Urbanistic and Architectural Plan )〕 and a beginning of colonization in agricultural areas assigned to Italian colonists. Even some industrial facilities were developed: for example at Addis Alem a huge factory for the production of slaked lime was established in 1938, and in its first year of production it turned out 30,000 hundredweights of the material. Italian Ethiopia had an area of 305,000 square miles and a population of 9,450,000 inhabitants, resulting in a density of 31 per square mile Some territories of the defeated Kingdom of Etiopia were added to Italian Eritrea and Italian Somalia inside AOI, because mainly populated by Eritrean and Somalian populations (but even as a reward to their colonial soldiers who fought in the Italian Army against the Negus troops). The currency used was the Italian East African lira: the ''Lira AOI'' was a special banknote (of 50 lire and 100 lire) circulating in AOI between 1938 〔(Bank of Italy )〕 and 1941: On 5 May 1936 the capital Addis Ababa was captured by the Italians: on 22 May three new stamps showing the King of Italy were issued. Four further values inscribed "ETIOPIA" were issued on 5 December 1936.〔(Postage stamps of Italian Ethiopia )〕 After that date, the stamps were issued with the name "Africa Orientale Italiana" on it.〔("Alleanza Italo-tedesca" Stamps )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Italian Ethiopia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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