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Eritrea

Infoplease has everything you need to know about Eritrea. Check out our country profile, full of essential information about Eritrea's geography, history, government, economy, population, culture,…

Eritrea

(Encyclopedia) Eritrea Eritrea ĕrĭtrēˈə [key], officially State of Eritrea, republic (2021 est. pop. 3,616,635…

Aseb

(Encyclopedia) Aseb or Assab Assab äˈsəb [key], town, Eritrea, on the Red Sea. Ethiopia's most important port before Eritrean independence (1993), it continued, through…

Eritrea Map

Eritrea Profile More Geographic Information Country Profiles Flags World Geography World Statistics U.S. State Profiles U.S. Cities U.S. Geography U.S. Statistics Africa Map Map…

Dahlak Archipelago

(Encyclopedia) Dahlak ArchipelagoDahlak Archipelagodäläkˈ ärkĭpĕlˈəgō [key], island group, Eritrea, in the Red Sea off Massawa. There are two large, inhabited islands and more than 200 small, largely…

Afwerki, Isaias

(Encyclopedia) Afwerki or Afewerki, Isaias, 1945–, Eritrean political leader, president of Eritrea (1993–), b. Asmara. He studied engineering at the Univ. of Addis Ababa, leaving in 1966 to join the…

Abiy Ahmed Ali

(Encyclopedia) Abiy Ahmed Ali, 1976–, Ethiopian political leader. Joining the Ethiopian army in 1993, he served in the intelligence service, the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda,…

Italian East Africa

(Encyclopedia) Italian East Africa, former federation of the Italian colonies of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland and the kingdom of Ethiopia. The federation was formed (1936) to consolidate the…

Asmara

(Encyclopedia) Asmara Asmara äsmäˈrä, äz– [key], city (2020 pop. 963,000), capital of Eritrea, at an altitude of c.7,300 ft (2,225 m). The name also appears as Asmera. A…

Massawa

(Encyclopedia) MassawaMassawaməsäˈwə [key], city (1984 pop. 15,441), Eritrea, a port on the Red Sea. Before Eritrean independence (1993) it was the main port for N Ethiopia and is linked by rail with…