ITALIAN EAST AFRICA / AFRICA ORIENTALE ITALIANA (now Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia).
Airmail local motives.
Lake Tana.
Airmail. Seventh stamp in a set of 11, issued on 07.02.1938.
Face value: 2 Italian lire.
Printing: Recess.
Printed by Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Officina Carte-Valori, Roma.
Size: 40 x 24 mm.
Catalogs
- Michel No. 27.
- Sassone No. A7.
- Scott No. C7.
- StampWorld No. 27.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 27.
- Unificato No. A7.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA 7.
Italian
East Africa (Italian: Africa Orientale Italiana, AOI) was an Italian
colony in the Horn of Africa. It was formed in 1936 through the merger of
Italian Somalia, Italian Eritrea, and the newly occupied Ethiopian Empire,
conquered in the Second
Italo-Ethiopian War. The colony was divided into six governorates. During
the Second World War, Italian East Africa was occupied by a British-led force
including colonial units and Ethiopian guerrillas in November 1941. After the
war, Italian Somalia and Eritrea came under British administration, while
Ethiopia regained its independence.
Lake
Tana (Amharic: ጣና ሐይቅ) is the largest lake in Ethiopia
and the source of the Blue
Nile. Located in Amhara
Region in the north-western Ethiopian Highlands, the lake is approximately
84 km (52 mi) long and 66 km (41 mi) wide, with a maximum depth of 15 m (49 ft),
and an elevation of 1,788 m (5,866 ft). Lake Tana is fed by the Gilgel Abay, Reb and Gumara rivers. Its
surface area ranges from 3,000 to 3,500 km2 (1,200 to 1,400 sq mi),
depending on season and rainfall. The lake level has been regulated since the
construction of the control weir where the lake discharges into the Blue Nile.
This controls the flow to the Blue Nile Falls (Tis
Abbai) and hydro-power station. In 2015, the Lake Tana region was nominated
as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Lake Tana was formed by volcanic activity,
blocking the course of inflowing rivers in the early Pleistocene epoch, about 5
million years ago.
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Thanks to Vairo Gregori for his contribution (https://ternifil.org/).
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