 Division "21 Aprile" (CC.NN.standing for Camicie Nere, Blackshirts) was one of the seven Italian militia divisions (similar to SS in Nazi-Germany), formed to participate in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War against Ethiopia in the mid-1930s.The name "21 Aprile" was in honor of the legendary date of the founding of Rome, and also the date of the publication of the Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals on 21 April 1925.