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===Territory=== [[File:Italian East Africa (1938β1941).svg|thumb|220px|Administrative [[Governorates of Italian East Africa|subdivisions]] of Italian East Africa]] When established in 1936, Italian East Africa consisted of the old Italian possessions in the [[Horn of Africa]]: [[Italian Eritrea]] and [[Italian Somaliland]], combined with the recently conquered [[Empire of Ethiopia]].<ref name="italian colonialism">{{cite book |last1=Fuller |first1=Mia |editor1-last=Ben-Ghiat |editor1-first=Ruth |title=Italian Colonialism. |date=2016 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US |isbn=9781403981585 |language=en |oclc=961059564}}</ref> The territory was divided into the [[governorates of Italian East Africa|six governorates]]: [[Eritrea Governorate|Eritrea]] and [[Somalia Governorate|Somalia]], consisting of the respective former colonies, enlarged with territory from Ethiopia. The remainder of "[[Italian Ethiopia]]" consisted of the [[Harar Governorate|Harar]], [[Galla-Sidamo Governorate|Galla-Sidamo]], [[Amhara Governorate|Amhara]], and [[Addis Abeba Governorate]]s. The Addis Abeba Governorate was enlarged into the [[Scioa Governorate]] with territory from neighboring Harar, Galla-Sidamo and Amhara in November 1938. Italian East Africa was briefly enlarged in 1940, as Italian forces [[Italian invasion of British Somaliland|invaded]] [[British Somaliland]], thereby bringing all Somali territories, aside from the small colony of [[French Somaliland]], under Italian administration. At its largest extent, The colony occupied territories in [[British Somaliland]], [[Kenya Colony |British Kenya]], and [[Anglo-Egyptian Sudan]]. However, it was dismembered only a year later, when in the course of the [[East African campaign (World War II)|East African campaign]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Cambridge history of Africa. Vol. 8, From c. 1940 to c. 1975 |last=Clapham |first=Christopher |publisher=Cambridge University Press |others=Crowder, Michael, 1934-1988. |year=1984 |isbn=9781139054621 |editor-last=Crowder |editor-first=Michael |location=Cambridge |pages=460 |chapter=The Horn of Africa |oclc=317592773}}</ref>
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