Italian colonial troops

thumb|right|300px|Group of Zaptié in Italian Somaliland (1939).Zaptié was the name of locally raised gendarmerie units in the Italian colonies of Tripolitania, Cyrenaica (later Italian Libya), Eritrea and Somaliland between 1888 and 1943.

Italian colonial soldiers recruited from Eritrea

Colonial troops raised on Italy's African possessions.

thumb|right|350px|Dubat from Italian Somalia with rifle, futa and lanyard, 1938 Dubat (Wadaad's Somali :,دُوب عد); Arabic:العمائم البيضاء ); ḍubbāṭ: Italian: "turbanti bianchi", English: White turban) was the designation for members of the semi-regular armed bands employed by the Italian Royal Corps of Colonial Troops in Italian Somaliland from 1924 to 1941. The word dubat was derived from a Somali phrase meaning "white turban".