Aero Espresso Italioana (AEI) from Italian Wikipedia:
The Aero Espresso Italiana[1], called also Aeroespresso del Levante, was the first airline of the Kingdom of Italy. It was created as a private company for the route Brindisi-Athens-Istanbul.
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The airline company, founded in Rome on December 1923, was operating with flights only from 1926. It was based in Rome and worked, as was customary in the period, with services of passenger transport and international [[air mail] in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Like many other European nations did in their early phases of civil aviation, Italy initially formed several small companies that struggled to provide a modest level of passenger service. The first of these was the Aero Expresso Italiana (AEI), founded on December 12, 1923, which began offering services in August 1926.[2]
The AEI remained active until its absorption, in 1934, by the national airline Ala Littoria (that was formed by a merger of Società Aerea Mediterranea (SAM), Società Anonima Navigazione Aerea (SANA), Società Italiana Servizi Aerei (SISA) and Aero Espresso Italiana).
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TOMMASO CARLETTI (Governor)
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Tommaso Carletti was born in Viterbo (Italy) and was one of the Governors of Italian Somalia. [1]
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Tommaso Carletti was the Commissioner-General of the Italian colony in Banadir from 1907 to 1908. Later he was named Governor of the newly created Somalia italiana, that he ruled from 1908 until July 1910 (when was substituted by Giacomo De Martino. In July 1908 Carletti started the full conquest of the interior of Somalia [2], because until then the Italians controlled only the coastal area around Mogadishu and other port cities.
In 1909 Carletti introduced the Somali Rupia as the currency of Somalia in use, that lasted until 1925[3]. The Somali Rupia was divided in bese coins.
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- Beltrami, Vanni. Italia d'oltremare: storie dei territori italiani dalla conquista alla caduta. Publisher Edizioni Nuova Cultura. Roma, 2011 ISBN 8861347029
- *Calchi Novati, Gian Paolo. L'Africa d'Italia Editori Carrocci. Roma, 2011.
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