Italian East African lira

E304460

colonial currency historical currency

The Italian East African lira was the colonial currency introduced by Fascist Italy for use in its East African territories during the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Italian East African lira canonical	2
Italian Somaliland lira	1

Statements (34)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	colonial currency ⓘ historical currency ⓘ
colonialPower	Italy ⓘ
countryOrRegionUsed	Italian East Africa ⓘ Italian East Africa ⓘ surface form: Italian Eritrea Italian East Africa ⓘ surface form: Italian Ethiopia Italian Somaliland ⓘ
currencyCodeStatus	no ISO 4217 code ⓘ
demonetized	yes ⓘ
historicalEra	World War II ⓘ surface form: World War II era interwar period ⓘ
introducedBy	Italian colonial administration ⓘ Kingdom of Italy ⓘ
introductionContext	creation of Italian East Africa ⓘ
issuer	Banca d’Italia ⓘ Italian colonial authorities in East Africa ⓘ
monetarySystem	decimal ⓘ
peggedTo	Italian lira ⓘ
periodOfUse	early 1940s ⓘ late 1930s ⓘ
politicalEntityContext	Italian East Africa ⓘ surface form: Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana)
region	East Africa ⓘ
replacedCurrency	Eritrean tallero ⓘ Ethiopian birr ⓘ Somali lira ⓘ surface form: Italian Somaliland rupia Somali lira ⓘ
status	obsolete ⓘ
subunit	centesimo ⓘ
subunitToUnitRatio	100 centesimi = 1 lira ⓘ
usedAlongside	Italian lira ⓘ
usedBy	Kingdom of Italy ⓘ
usedInConflict	Second Italo-Ethiopian War aftermath ⓘ
usedInWorldWar	World War II ⓘ
usedUnderRegime	Fascist Italy ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Italian East Africa → currency → Italian East African lira ⓘ

Italian Somaliland → currency → Italian East African lira ⓘ

this entity surface form: Italian Somaliland lira

Governor of Italian Somaliland → usedCurrency → Italian East African lira ⓘ