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Guido Corni (August 25, 1883 – February 28, 1946) was a colonial governor of
Italian Somaliland Italian Somalia ( it, Somalia Italiana; ar, الصومال الإيطالي, Al-Sumal Al-Italiy; so, Dhulka Talyaaniga ee Soomaalida), was a protectorate and later colony of the Kingdom of Italy in present-day Somalia. Ruled in the 19th centur ...
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Life

Born in
Modena Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...
province, he began in his youth he followed
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ideals. He graduated in industrial
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and was a successful entrepreneur: he created the "Fabbrica Modenese Utensileria e Ferramenta Corni Bassani". In 1919 he enrolled in the Modena fascist party In March 1911 Guido Corni went to
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to study the possible
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of the region. He explored all of
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in the following years. In 1923 he was promoted to become head of the fascist party in Modena. From 1 June 1928 to 1 July 1931 Guido Corni was Governor of Somalia, promoting the integration of the local population to the Italian colonial system. He also began to improve the economy of the colony: in those years the Italian colonization of the
Genale Genale is a town founded by Italian colonists in the southeastern Lower Shebelle (Shabeellaha Hoose) region of Italian Somalia. Currently it is called Janaale. History Genale was created in 1924 by a group of settlers from the Italian city of T ...
area began in southern Somalia, forming a group of small and medium-sized farms. Most settlers were former
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militants from
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. The first informal association of farmers, however, arose only in 1928, promoted by Corni. The primary crop of the area was cotton, grown by small farms owned by Italian settlers: about one hundred farms with an area varying between 75 and 600 hectares (wgoofy ahh gut ith an average that oscillated around 200), with a total area of about 20,000 hectares. Cotton predominated at least until 1931, then was replaced by banana production,Banana harvest in Genale
/ref> whose harvest was sold to the Italian State, which sold them in Italy as a monopoly. In March 1946 he died near
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See also

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Cesare Maria De Vecchi Cesare Maria De Vecchi, 1st Conte di Val Cismon (14 November 1884 – 23 June 1959) was an Italian soldier, colonial administrator and Fascist politician. Biography De Vecchi was born in Casale Monferrato on 14 November 1884. After graduating ...


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Bibliography

* Bartolacelli, Giuliano and Enzo. ''Un imprenditore modenese. Fermo Corni e il castello di Monfestino''. CS Litografia, Modena, 2001 * Focherini, Franco. ''Il fascismo modenese minuto per minuto'' edizioni Il Fiorino. Modena, 2001 * Nuzzi, Olimpia. ''Il Corni e Modena''. Corni Edizione, Modena, 2003 {{DEFAULTSORT:Corni, Guido 1883 births 1946 deaths Governors of Italian Somaliland People from Modena Italian fascists