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Somalia Governorate
| Somalia Governorate Governatorato della Somalia | |||||||||||||||||
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| Governorate of Italian East Africa | |||||||||||||||||
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.svg) Somalia (green) within Italian East Africa | |||||||||||||||||
| Capital | Mogadishu | ||||||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||||||
• | ca. 1,150,000 | ||||||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||||||||||
• 1936–1937 | Ruggiero Santini | ||||||||||||||||
• 1937–1940 | Francesco Caroselli | ||||||||||||||||
• 1940–1941 | Gustavo Pesenti | ||||||||||||||||
• 1941 | Carlo De Simone | ||||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Interwar period World War II | ||||||||||||||||
• Created | 1 June 1936 | ||||||||||||||||
| 19 August 1940 | |||||||||||||||||
| 25 February 1941 | |||||||||||||||||
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Somalia Governorate was one of the six governorates of Italian East Africa. It was formed from the previously separate colony of Italian Somalia, enlarged by the Ogaden region of the conquered Ethiopian Empire following the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
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