Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Italian Empire officially ended on the 1st of July 1960 when Somali Republic independence arrived. This event marked the conclusion of an eight-decade colonial experiment following the union between Italian Somalia and British Somaliland.
Assab Bay became modern Italy's first overseas territory after the government took it over in 1882. The nation had purchased this location on the Red Sea from an Italian navigation company in 1869 to establish a coaling station.
Six thousand eight hundred eighty-nine men died on Italy's side including four thousand one hundred thirty-three Italians. Vastly outnumbered and poorly equipped Italian troops suffered a decisive defeat against Ethiopian forces in 1896.
Benito Mussolini proclaimed the establishment of the Italian Empire in East Africa on the 9th of May 1936. King Victor Emmanuel III assumed the title Emperor of Ethiopia as part of this declaration.
Italy occupied British Somaliland, western Egypt, much of Yugoslavia, Tunisia, parts of south-eastern France, and most of Greece before losing those conquests by 1943. Allied intervention forced the surrender of Axis forces in North Africa by May 1943.