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Eritrea
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Er·i·tre·a  (r-tr)
A country of northeast Africa bordering on the Red Sea. Once part of the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum, it became an Italian colony in 1890 and was named after the Roman term for the Red Sea, Mare erythraeum. Captured by the British during World War II, Eritrea later became a federated part (1952) and then a province (1962) of Ethiopia, from which it gained its independence in 1993. Asmara is the capital and largest city. Population: 4,910,000.

Eri·trean adj. & n.
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Eritrea
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Noun1.EritreaEritrea - an African country to the north of Ethiopia on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Ethiopia in 1993
Asmara, Asmera - the capital of Eritrea
Massawa - a port town in Eritrea on an inlet of the Red Sea
Horn of Africa, Somali peninsula - a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia
Eritrean - a native or inhabitant of Eritrea
Translations
Eritrea [ɛrɪˈtreɪə] nEritrea
Eritrea [ɛrɪˈtreɪə] nÉrythrée f
Eritrea nEritrea nt
Eritrea [ɛrɪˈtreɪə] nEritrea


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I see it in Seattle, where there are substantial groups of Somalians, Eritreans, and Ethiopians, each with their cultural centers and their own artists.
By exploring in precise and often painful detail the battering that the Eritreans took from successive occupying forces, Wrong compels readers to consider the sources of the blowback that Chalmers Johnson warns of.
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