Italian Trans-Juba
| Italian Trans-Juba | ||||||||||
| Oltre Giuba Italiana | ||||||||||
| Italian colony | ||||||||||
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Anthem National Anthem of the Kingdom of Italy |
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 Trans-Juba shown on a map of present-day Somalia.
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| Capital | Kismayo | |||||||||
| Religion | Islam · Roman Catholicism | |||||||||
| Political structure | Colony | |||||||||
| Historical era | Interwar period | |||||||||
| • | Established | 1924 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | 1925 | ||||||||
| Currency | Italian lira | |||||||||
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Italian Trans-Juba (Italian: Oltre Giuba, Arabic: الإيطالية عبر جوبا) was a briefly-extant Italian colony in the territory of present-day southern Somalia.
Italian Trans-Juba was established in 1924, after Britain ceded a portion of Jubaland to Italy as a reward for the Italians having joined the Allies in World War I. The territory thereafter had a brief existence as Trans-Juba (Oltre Giuba) under governor Corrado Zoli (16 July 1924 – 31 December 1926).
Italy issued its first postage stamps for the new colony on 29 July 1925, consisting of contemporary Italian stamps overprinted Oltre Giuba. Britain retained control of the southern half of the partitioned Jubaland territory, which was later called the Northern Frontier District (NFD).
In 1925, a year after its formation, Trans-Juba was integrated into Italian Somaliland.
The colony had a total area of 87,000 km² (33,000 sq mi), and in 1926, a population of 120,000 inhabitants. In the capital Kismayo (Chisimaio), there was a very little group of Italian settlers, mostly merchants. During this period, the city was the third largest in Somalia and served as a port of call for small military ships.
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