Colonial Order of the Star of Italy

Colonial Order of the Star of Italy
Colonial Order of the Star of Italy
	The insignia of the colonial order
Type	State Order
Awarded for	Service in the Italian colonies
Presented by	Kingdom of Italy
Status	No longer awarded
Established	18 January 1914
Last awarded	2 June 1946

The Colonial Order of the Star of Italy (Italian: Ordine coloniale della Stella d'Italia) was founded as a colonial order of chivalry 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.^[1]

The various degrees of the order, with limits to their number, were as follows:

Class (English)	Full title in Italian	Limit
1st Class / Knight Grand Cross	Cavaliere di Gran Croce dell'Ordine coloniale della Stella d'Italia	4
2nd Class / Grand Officer	Grande Ufficiale dell'Ordine coloniale della Stella d'Italia	7
3rd Class / Commander	Commendatore dell'Ordine coloniale della Stella d'Italia	20
4th Class / Officer	Ufficiale dell'Ordine coloniale della Stella d'Italia	50
5th Class / Knight	Cavaliere dell'Ordine coloniale della Stella d'Italia	150

Wearing style of the insignia of the various classes of the Colonial Order of the Star of Italy.

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^ Mendola, Louis A.M. Contemporary Knighthood in Italy Archived 2010-10-31 at the Wayback Machine originally published in the Journal of the Orders and Medals Research Society, London: 1989 and 1993

[1] Mendola, Louis A.M. Contemporary Knighthood in Italy Archived 2010-10-31 at the Wayback Machine originally published in the Journal of the Orders and Medals Research Society, London: 1989 and 1993

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Colonial Order of the Star of Italy

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