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The Gruppo Bande
Amahara has suffered 826 deaths and more than 600 injured from the beginning of WW2; it had no deserters and received the gold medal of hero Togni with enemy's congratulations, written on official reports of the British High Command (Il Gruppo Bande Amahara ha avuto 826 morti e piĂą
152:. During the guerrilla war that continued in Ethiopia after the 1936 Italian invasion, Bande were recruited amongst groups collaborating with the Italian regime. One of the best known of these was the
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di 600 feriti dall’inizio della guerra, nessun disertore e la medaglia d’oro alla memoria dell’eroico Togni e gli ammirati elogi del nemico, nelle relazioni ufficiali dello Stato
Maggiore Britannico.)
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a regimental unit appeared briefly during the fascist period in the
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Irregular Bands in the Battle of Belet-Uen in
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Locally recruited bands were employed in the conquest of
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Postage stamps and postal history of
Italian East Africa
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originated from a mercenary Arab force employed by the
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AA.VV., "Impero Addio!", Fratelli Melita Editori, 1988
87:. The first of these irregular units employed by the
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155:Gruppo Bande irregolari "Uollo Ambassel"
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1174:Italian Somali Divisions (101 and 102)
672:Tentative to occupy French Somaliland
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121:. As lightly armed irregulars the
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1189:Italian guerrilla units (A.O.I.)
1169:Italian Libyan Colonial Division
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1240:Postage stamps of Italian Libya
1102:Bands (Italian Army irregulars)
1127:Royal Corps of Colonial Troops
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636:Italian concession of Tientsin
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294:Royal Corps of Colonial Troops
205:and local young Italians from
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1154:Italian 2nd Eritrean Division
1149:Italian 1st Eritrean Division
985:Mogadishu–Villabruzzi Railway
142:, the Italians also employed
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445:Independent State of Croatia
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1159:1st Libyan Division Sibille
1005:Railway stations in Eritrea
865:Asmara Presidential Palace
616:Southern Military Territory
477:Italian Province of Lubiana
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465:Principality of the Pindus
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722:Settlers and Irredentism
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1271:Italian colonial troops
1215:Italian Somaliland lira
1035:Libyan Railway stations
1000:Asmara-Massawa Cableway
990:Ethio-Djibouti Railways
158:in northern Ethiopia.
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1030:Italian Libya Railways
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138:during the 1920s. In
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1090:Police and military
884:Mogadishu Cathedral
527:Somalia Governorate
522:Eritrea Governorate
517:Italian East Africa
397:Southeastern France
229:from 1941 to 1943.
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1020:Via della Vittoria
894:Benghazi Cathedral
857:Governor's Palace
849:Governor's Palace
841:Governor's Palace
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539:Amhara Governorate
532:British Somaliland
505:Italian Somaliland
274:Hamid Idriss Awate
232:After the fall of
140:"Somalia italiana"
136:Italian Somaliland
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771:Irredentism
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428:World War I
190:della Marin
169:auxiliaries
161:While most
68:Gruppo Band
41:auxiliaries
1255:Categories
1081:Third Rome
1015:Via Balbia
851:(Tripoli)
741:Dodecanese
867:(Asmara)
859:(Asmara)
586:Cyrenaica
300:Ruga-Ruga
296:(Italian)
99:, called
933:Urbanism
877:Civilian
794:Dalmatia
751:Ethiopia
628:Far East
450:Dalmatia
424:Albania
387:Western
253:See also
207:Dalmatia
203:Slovenes
107:Albanian
49:colonial
779:Corsica
761:Somalia
746:Eritrea
736:Albania
697:Tunisia
667:Majorca
417:Balkans
407:Corsica
115:Eritrea
85:Balkans
45:regular
43:to the
29:Italian
1225:Somalo
1122:Spahis
1117:Savari
1107:Zaptié
657:Adalia
455:Greece
402:Monaco
284:Savari
279:Zaptié
264:Dubats
234:Asmara
199:Croats
181:. The
144:Dubats
80:Milizi
1112:Dubat
814:Corfu
804:Malta
789:Savoy
756:Libya
687:Malta
682:Sudan
677:Kenya
662:Egypt
573:Libya
307:Notes
195:Serbs
187:n° 9
184:Banda
178:Bande
164:Bande
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119:Italy
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