History: Sultan Olol Dinle of Somalia, in Italy, during the festivities of Adolf Hitler's visit to Rome, 1938. A member of a extinct Somali Empire, the Sultan made an alliance with Fascist Italy in the 1920s in exchange for military protection from its rival in the region, the Ethiopian Empire. [1075x1572]

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