Oltre Giuba

Location of Oltre Giuba

Oltre Giuba or Oltregiuba ( German  Trans-Juba or Jubaland ) was a separate Italian colony from 1924 to 1926 before it was annexed to Italian Somaliland . It covered an area of ​​91,122 square kilometers west of the Juba / Jubba River (in Italian Giuba ) and east of the British colony of Kenya and corresponded to the present administrative regions of Gedo and Jubbada Hoose in Somalia .

development

At the end of the 19th century, the Somali- inhabited region experienced the colonial division that is still in effect today. The area west of the Jubba River was initially part of the British Zanzibar Protectorate and thus of British East Africa and the Crown Colony of Kenya from 1920. On July 15, 1924, it was transferred to Italy , based on agreements between Great Britain, France and Italy of April 26, 1915, which preceded Italy's entry into the war in World War I.

Postage stamps from 1926 with the map of the colony

Until 1926, Oltre Giuba was then administered as a separate colony with Kismayo as the capital. There was an independent postal administration which issued three stamp series for the area from July 1925 to June 1926. Corrado Zoli served as governor from July 16, 1924 to December 31, 1926. It then became a province of Italian Somaliland, which in turn united with British Somaliland to form Somalia after its independence in 1960 . At a meeting with Chaim Weizmann , President of the World Jewish Federation, in the early 1930s, Benito Mussolini offered the Jews the area as a Jewish home. Weizmann refused, however, and insisted on Palestine as the territory of a Jewish state.

See also

• Southwest Somalia (the area of ​​Oltre Giuba today)
• Italian East Africa
• History of Somalia

Individual evidence

1. ^ Article Italian Jubaland , in: Koloniale Rundschau, Jg. 1925, p. 99, D. Reimer, Berlin.
2. ↑ Geographisches Jahrbuch, Volume 43, p. 28, Justus Perthes, Gotha, 1929.
3. ↑ Chronicle of State Treaties (PDF; 641 kB) at the MPI for Comparative Public Law and International Law
4. ↑ Yvon De Begeac: Taccuini Mussoliniani. Bologna 1990, p. 518