Type State Order Established 18 January 1914 | Status No longer awarded Last awarded 2 June 1946 | |
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Awarded for Service in the Italian colonies |
The Colonial Order of the Star of Italy (Italian: Ordine coloniale della Stella d'Italia) was founded as a colonial order of knighthood on 18 June 1914 by King Victor Emmanuel III, to reward soldiers deployed to the colony of Libya. The order had fallen into abeyance by 1943, when Allied forces conquered the colonies of Italian North Africa.
The various degrees of the order, with limits to their number, were as follows:
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