OLTRE GIUBA

OLTRE GIUBA / شرق جوبا الإيطالية (Italian colony, now in Somalia).

Map of the colony's territory.
Fourth stamp in a set of 7, issued on 21.04.1926.
Face value: 40 cents of Italian lira.
Printing: Typography.
Print: 250,000 copies.
Size: 24 x 40 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 26.
- Sassone No. 32.
- Scott No. 32.
- StampWorld No.31.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 57.
- Unificato No. 35.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 32.

Oltre Giuba or Trans-Juba (in Arabic, شرق جوبا الإيطالية) was an Italian colony in the territory of Jubaland, in present-day southern Somalia. It lasted from July 16, 1924 until December 31, 1925, when it was absorbed into Italian Somaliland (Somalia Italiana). The colony's territory, about 87,000 km² (33,000 sq mi), was ceded to Italy by Great Britain as a reward for the Italians who joined the Allies in World War I (the British retained, however, control of the southern half of the divided territory of Jubaland, later called the Northern FrontierDistrict, in Kenya). In 1926, the population of the territory was about 120,000 inhabitants. In the capital, Kismayo (in Italian, Chisimaio), on the shores of the Indian Ocean, there was a small group of Italian settlers, mostly merchants. During this period, the city was the third largest in Somalia and served as a port of call for small military ships. Italy issued its first postage stamps for the new colony on July 29, 1925: they were overprinted Italian stamps OLTRE GIUBA.

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Thanks to Vairo Gregori for his contribution (https://ternifil.org/).