Italy acquired its Somali coastal claims through treaty and sublease in 1889.

Evidence

In February, a treaty was concluded between Vincenzo Filonardi, the Italian Consul at Zanzibar, and Yusuf ‘Ali, the Majerteyn Sultan of Obbia, by which the latter placed his country and his possessions under the ‘protection and government’ of Italy in return for an annuity of 1,800 tallers. Two months later, a similar convention was signed with Yusuf ‘Ali’s kinsman ‘Isman, the hereditary Sultan of the Majerteyn clan at Alula. And at the end of the year (1889) Italy rounded off these new Somali acquisitions when the Imperial British East Africa Company sublet the southern Benadir ports which it held in lease from the Sultan of Zanzibar. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 166

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Italy acquired its Somali protectorates through private treaties with clan sultans; Italian Somalia began as a rented leasehold of twenty-five years. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 167

Related

• Italy acquired its Somali protectorates through private treaties with clan sultans (similarity 0.90)
• Italian Somalia began as a rented leasehold of twenty-five years. (similarity 0.90)