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| | Italian East Africa |
 | | The Italian army went to Ethiopia in 1869 for the first time, but the Italian Empire in Ethiopia started in 1935, when Mussolini attacked and won. |
 | | The first Italian colonial plates, from 1913 until the end of the 1920s, were rectangular, with white background and the full name or just an abbreviation of the colony in red followed by a serial number on the same line, but documentation about these plates is very poor and uncertain. |
 | | Later, until 1935, the Italian colonies used plates like those shown in the second (you can find another picture in the old photo gallery, picture 17), in the third and in the fourth picture, that are a front and two different rear plates. |
| www.targheitaliane.it /italy/colonie/aoi.html (645 words) |
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