Scioa Governorate
| Addis Abeba Governorate (1936-1938) Governatorato di Addis Abeba Scioa Governorate (1938-1941) Governatorato dello Scioa | |||||||||
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| Governorate of Italian East Africa | |||||||||
Scioa (purple) within Italian East Africa | |||||||||
| Capital | Addis Abeba | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• | ca. 1,850,000 | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||
• 1936 | Giuseppe Bottai | ||||||||
• 1936-1938 | Alfredo Siniscalchi | ||||||||
• 1938-1939 | Francesco Canero Medici | ||||||||
• 1939 | Enrico Cerulli | ||||||||
• 1939-1940 | Guglielmo Nasi | ||||||||
• 1940-1941 | Giuseppe Daodice | ||||||||
• 1941 | Agenore Frangipani | ||||||||
| Historical era | Interwar period World War II | ||||||||
• Created | 1 June 1936 | ||||||||
• Enlarged into the Scioa Governorate | 11 November 1938 | ||||||||
| 6 April 1941 | |||||||||
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The Scioa Governorate (Governo dello Scioa), also known as the Shewa Governorate, was one of the six governorates of Italian East Africa. It was formed in 1936 from parts of the conquered Ethiopian Empire following the Second Italo-Ethiopian War with its administrative capital being Addis Abeba.