Italy, having big history on taking over lands and expanding their empire. Italy had some colonies until the Second War World happened and lost some. Here are some of the countries that Italy colonized before:
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.
Libya: The Italian occupation in Libya started in 1911 and lasted until the Second World War, even if it was often fought by the local population.
Colonial Police and Police of Italian Africa (P.A.I.): After the end of the war in Ethiopia in 1937, the Corps of "Polizia Coloniale" (Colonial Police) was created to take the role of the police in the colonies in Africa (Libya, Ethiopia and Somalia) and it started issueing its own license plates in Mach 1938.
Rhodes: The island of Rhodes, the main of the archipelago of Dodecaneso, became the headquarters of the Order of Knights of St. John from the beginning of the 14th century and had two centuries of great splendour until 1522, when the Turkishes invaded it and the Knights had to escape to Malta, becoming the well-known Knights of Malta. In 1912 Rhodes was taken by Italy that was already fighting with Turkey in Libya and it was Italian until the end of the Second World War.
Slovenia: At the beginning of the Second World War Slovenia, that was in Yugoslavia, was split in two parts: the northern went under the control of Germany, while the southern became Italian. Just at the end of the war Slovenia was reunified and taken again by Yugoslavia. Anyway, although the Italian control in this country was very short and lasted just few years (1941-1943) during the war.
Somalia (A.F.I.S.): After the Second World War, from 1950, the Italian part of Somalia was entrusted again to Italy, under the control of a trust administration.
Albania: Italy took possession of Albania in 1939 and kept it until 1944.
Tientsin (China): Tientsin is a town in the north-east of China and it's a quite important center for international trade and business. But it was important also in the past and between 1858 and 1860 the first concessions were taken by England, France, America and Russia and later in 1900 those of Italy and Japan were added and they all were kept until the second world war.
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