found: LC manual auth. cd.(hdg.: Italian East Africa (Ter.); ref.: Africa orientale italiana)
found: Encyc. Brit., 15th ed.(Italian East Africa; the name for a group of Italian possessions in East Africa in 1936-41)
found: Catalogo bibliografico della Biblioteca del Governo generale A.O.I., 1940- :t.p. (Governo generale dell'Africa orientale italiana)
found: Wikipedia, January 16, 2020(Italian East Africa; Africa Orientale Italiana; an Italian colony in the Horn of Africa, formed in 1936 through merger of Italian Somaliland, Italian Eritrea, and the newly occupied Ethiopian Empire which became Italian Ethiopia; occupied by British-led forces during Second World War (1941); official surrender of the Italians in January 1942, except for guerrilla war in Ethiopia against the British until the Armistice of Cassibile (3 September 1943) ended hostilities between Italy and the Allies; Italy renounced sovereignty over its African colonies in peace treaty of February 1947)