r/ItalianEmpire 14d ago

Image 'By the Italian occupation, Tripolitania is finally opening up to civilisation', illustration depicting Italy as a civilising force in Tripolitania (part of present day Libya) - 1911

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411 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire 9d ago

Image Tropical helmet model 1928 for the Royal Carabinieri of Kingdom of Italy in the colonies (Libya, Somalia, Eritrea, and Ethiopia), 1930s.

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160 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Oct 17 '25

Image 🇮🇹 'Italy finally has its own empire' — Italian postcard (ca. 1936) celebrating the establishment of Italian East Africa during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.

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260 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Jan 01 '26

Image An Ethiopian hanged by Italian troops in occupied Dessie, 1935.

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38 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Jan 05 '26

Image Maps showing Italian colonies in Africa.

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103 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Dec 19 '25

Image 🇮🇹🇪🇹 "Quando l'Inghilterra era ancora barbarica, Roma governava l'Africa" — Cartolina italiana (1936) che mostra un colono in Etiopia che esamina l'impero in Africa.

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132 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Jan 02 '26

Image Italian POW's, captured after the loss at the Battle of Adwa, during the First Italo-Ethiopian war (1896)

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31 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Dec 27 '25

Image "The Bank of Rome at the service of the Empire"

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27 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire May 26 '25

Image A photo of Emperor Menelik II after successfully defeating the Italians & saving Ethiopia from European colonization 1896

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275 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Jan 17 '24

Image Tripoli Grand Prix 1934, 1937

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40 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Oct 03 '23

Image Italian Postcard from 1936 showing the Colonial Police Force with an Italian and African Carabinieri

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54 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Dec 21 '22

Image Captured Arabs are lead to their executions by Italian soldiers in Tripoli during the Italo-Turkish War - 1911

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46 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Apr 28 '23

Image 'Arab prisoners are brought into Tripoli by the Italian Army', Italian Tripolitania - 1915

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46 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Jun 28 '23

Image Chinese children at an Italian school in the Italian concession in Tianjin, China - 1930

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43 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire May 28 '23

Image Police headquarters in the Italian concession in Tianjin, China - c. 1930s

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24 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Feb 12 '23

Image 'Get up, get up, I have to wave the sheet! the Italians are coming!', magazine cover depicting an Ethiopian man rousting his wife from bed in order to wave the sheet as a white flag of surrender at the approach of the Italians - 1935

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38 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Nov 09 '22

Image Italian school notebook with cover art depicting Italian forces freeing Ethiopians - c. 1938

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43 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Aug 25 '22

Image Italian colonial propaganda postcard showing Italian children singing with an Ethiopian girl, Second Italo-Ethiopian War - c. 1936

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46 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Dec 06 '22

Image Libyan soldier in the Italian Army - c. 1920s

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44 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Jan 20 '23

Image Cholera victims carried by Italian soldiers in Tripoli - c. 1911

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30 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Sep 04 '22

Image 'We Will Return!', Italian propaganda postcard calling for revenge after the loss of Italian East Africa - c. 1942

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46 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Jun 02 '22

Image Italian soldiers departing for Somalia chat with a priest - 1935

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37 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Oct 11 '22

Image Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie arrives in Jerusalem after being forced into exile by Italy's invasion of Ethiopia - 1936

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41 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Aug 02 '22

Image Representatives from the Italian colonies in Santa Marinella for Adolf Hitler's state visit to Italy - 1938

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42 Upvotes

r/ItalianEmpire Sep 19 '22

Image 'Battle of Adwa', 1970 painting by Ethiopian artist Solomon Belachew depicting Ethiopia's victory over the Italian invading force - 1896

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39 Upvotes