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Apart from a few Catholic missionaries, Italian emigration to South Africa was very limited until the end of the 19th century. Some Italian traders, such as Theresa Viglione, [2] were present in small numbers alongside the Boers, when they made their Great Trek towards the Transvaal and Natal, but only in the early 20th century did the Italians form a small community of about 5,000 people ...
After World War I, Italy emerged as one of the four great powers after the victory of the Allies. In the decades following unification, Italy began creating colonies in Africa, and under Benito Mussolini's fascist regime conquered Ethiopia, founding the Italian Empire in 1936. The population of Italy grew to 45 million in 1940 and the economy ...
(Romania) used for Italians in general, roughly meaning "macaroni eater/maker". [191] Polentone (Italy) used by southern Italians to refer to northern Italians. It stands for 'polenta eater'. [192] Terrone (Italy) Southern Italians, originated in northern Italy to refer to people from the South who moved there. Derives from terra, Italian for ...
The Italians merged Eritrea, Italian Somalia, and newly occupation Ethiopia into Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana, A.O.I.). Among the war crimes committed under the orders of Mussolini was the robbing of one of the so-called Axum Obelisks [ 6 ] (properly termed a 'stele' or, in the local Afro-Asiatic languages, hawelt/hawelti as ...
The size of the Italian Egyptian community had also reached around 55,000 just before World War II, forming the second-largest expatriate community in Egypt. 100,000 people in Italian Eritreans living in Eritrea have at least one Italian ancestor, accounting for 2.2% of its total population.
One of the most famous Italian Bolivian is the writer and poet Óscar Cerruto, considered one of the great authors of Bolivian literature. [174] There are currently almost 56,000 descendants of Italians in Ecuador, being one of the lowest rates of migrant ancestry in Ecuador, where Arabs and Spaniards play a more prominent role. [175]
Afro-Italians (Afroitaliani) are Italians born and are raised in Italy, citizen of African descent or of mixed African and Italian roots. In 2014 over 170,000 migrants arrived which represented the biggest influx of people into one country in European Union history. [2] A large percentage of them arrive via Africa.
With the arrival of the French, the migratory flow from Italy grew considerably: in 1836 the Italians had grown to 1,800, to 8,100 in 1846, to 9,000 in 1855, to 12,000 in 1864 and to 16,500 in 1866. [1] Italians were an important community among foreigners in Algeria. [1] Annaba was one of the major settlement centers of Italians in Algeria.