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The Society for Geographical Studies: Our history
The Society for Geographical Studies is recognized as a cultural organization by the Ministry for Education. It was founded in 1885 with the name The Society for Geographical and Colonial Studies following the setting up in 1884 of an independent organization, the Florentine Section of the Italian Africa Society. This in its turn was founded in Naples in 1882 and grew out of the African Club, with the aim of encouraging research interest in regions of Africa such as Ethiopia where a peaceful settlement movement was underway, subsequently transformed into military conquest.
From its inception in 1885 the Florentine Section of the Italian Africa Society published a Bulletin dealing with questions regarding Africa, its geographical description, and the civil, political and economic activities that Italy was called upon to carry out there. The Bulletin existed until 1895 when publication was suspended and it was replaced by the Italian Geographical Review (The Rivista Geografica Italiana), founded in 1894.
In 1895 the Review became the Society’s official organ and since then the Society and the Review have led a joint existence.
The Statute of the Society for Geographical and Colonial Studies was approved on 18th January 1896, altered slightly on 29th March 1903 and again on 24th March 1912 and abrogated in 1936 when the Society took its current name.
The Society’s first office was in a Technical School but it soon moved to the Institute of Higher Studies which in 1924 became the University.
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Coordinates:   43°46'39"N   11°15'25"E

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  • The seat of Emanuele Fenzi's Bank until 1892. Refurbished by G. Martelli. Then headquarters of Pirelli Group. The above information seems irrelevant
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