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African state
Answer for the clue "African state ", 7 letters:
eritrea
Alternative clues for the word eritrea
- A royal flag from the east African land
- Country's flag raised with backing of American head of state
- Country on the Red Sea
- African country on the Red Sea
- Its flag features an olive branch inside a wreath
- Greater Horn land
- Country recalled flag material, having run off 50
- English girl, about to enter African country
Word definitions for eritrea in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
named 1890 when it was an Italian colony, ultimately from Mare Erythreum , Roman name of the Red Sea, from Greek Erythre Thalassa , literally "Red Sea" (which to the Greeks also included the Gulf of Arabia and the Indian Ocean), from erythros "red" (see ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Eritrea is an opera in three acts by the Italian composer Francesco Cavalli . The libretto is by Giovanni Faustini . It was premiered at the Teatro Sant'Apollinare, Venice on 17 January 1652 and revived in modern times at the Wexford Festival in 1975 under ...
Usage examples of eritrea.
German station pumped it into the ether for the 5,000-mile leap to Tokyo, a new American intercept post at Asmara, in the former Italian colony of Eritrea bordering the Red Sea, picked it up.