Ministry of the Colonies (Italy)

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Minister of the Colonies
Ministro per l'Africa italiana
Longest serving Emilio De Bono (12 September 1929 – 17 January 1935)
Ministry of the Colonies
Status	Abolished
Constituting instrument	Royal Decree n. 1205
Precursor	Central Direction of Colonial Affairs
Formation	21 November 1912 (21 November 1912)
First holder	Pietro Bertolini
Final holder	Alcide De Gasperi
Abolished	19 April 1953 (19 April 1953)

The Ministry of the Colonies (Ministero delle colonie) was the ministry of the government of the Kingdom of Italy responsible for the governing of the country's colonial possessions and the direction of their economies. It was set up on 20 November 1912 by Royal Decree n. 1205, turning the Central Direction of Colonial Affairs within the Ministry for Foreign Affairs into a separate ministry. Royal Decree n. 431 of 8 April 1937 renamed it the Ministry of Italian Africa (Ministro per l'Africa italiana) after the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, which resulted in the Italian annexation of the Ethiopian Empire and the birth of Italian East Africa. It was suppressed on 19 April 1953 by law n. 430.