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Parade of Libyan colonial troops in front of King Victor Emanuel III (1869-1947) of Italy and the Vicegovernor of Cyrenaica Rodolfo Graziani (1882-1955) during the King's visit in Cyrenaica in February 1932. The King's...

View of the Swiss Global Entanglements exhibiton at the National Museum Zurich from 13.9.2024 - 19.1.2025. Copyright: Swiss National Museum. Used with permission (Press release).

View of the Swiss Global Entanglements exhibiton at the National Museum Zurich from 13.9.2024 - 19.1.2025. Copyright: Swiss National Museum. Used with permission (Press release).

Cover for the article 'A Makallè (1896) L'Uscita del presidio dal forte' (2 February 1896) appeared on the newspaper La Tribuna Illustrata (Anno IV, N. 5). During the first Italo-Ethiopian war, the...

A Swiss plantation in the Dutch East Indies bought in 1881 by Karl Krüsi (1855–1925) and named after Mary, his wife. In 1893, he sold it for a fortune and built the Villa Sumatra Zurich’s Sumatrastrasse. Manager House...

Amedeo Duke of Aosta (1898-1942), Viceroy of Ethiopia, with British General Mosley Mayne (1889-1955) and other British officers after the Italian surrender to the British troops at Amba Alagi. The Duke of Aosta was...

Umar al-Mukhtar (1858-1931), leader of the Libyan resistance to the Italian colonisation, with a group of resistance fighters.

Image of Italo Balbo's (1896-1940) arrival in Benghazi as Governor of Libya. Photo taken on 21 January 1934 (L'Illustrazione italiana, n. 3). Balbo became governor of a unified colony of Libya in 1934. Balbo was...

An illustration by Richard Caton Woodville Jr. showing an attack by the Ndebele of Matabeleland on Europeans invading the kingdom during the First Matabele War (1893-4).

Postage stamps issued by Italy for its various African colonies between 1920 and 1941. (Private Collection)