ITALIAN SOMALILAND

ITALIAN SOMALILAND / SOMALIA ITALIANA.

International Colonial Art Exhibition, Naples.
Jubba River.
Airmail ninth stamp in a set of 12, issued on 09.10.1934.
Face value: 75 cents of Italian lira,
Design: Giuseppe Rondini (1886-1995).
Printing: Photogravure.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 205.
- Scott No. C3.
- StampWorld No. 207.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 195.
- Unificato A3.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA 3.

Italian Somaliland (Italian: Somalia italiana; Arabic: الصومال الإيطالي‎; Somali: Dhulka Talyaaniga ee Soomaalida), was a colony of the Kingdom of Italy in present-day Somalia. Ruled in the 19th century by the Somali Sultanates of Hobyo and Majeerteen in the north, and Hiraab Imamate and Geledi in the south, the territory was acquired in the 1880s by Italy through various treaties. In 1936, the region was integrated into Italian East Africa as the Somalia Governorate. This would last until Italy's loss of the region in 1941, during the East African campaign of World War II. Italian Somalia then came under British military administration until 1950, when it became a United Nations trusteeship under Italian administration. On July 1, 1960, the Trust Territory of Somaliland united with the former British Somaliland protectorate to form the Somali Republic.

The Jubba or Juba (Somali: Wabiga Jubba; Italian: Giuba) is a river in southern Somalia which flows through the autonomous region of Jubaland. It begins at the border with Ethiopia, where the Dawa and Ganale Dorya rivers meet, and flows directly south to the Indian Ocean, where it empties near Goob Weyn. Its length is 875 km (544 mi). The Jubba basin covers an area of 749,000 km² (289,000 sq mi). Jubba has always been an important route of penetration towards Ethiopia: it was the subject of numerous explorations, in particular by Vittorio Bottego in 1892.

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