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Nation on the Red Sea
Answer for the clue "Nation on the Red Sea ", 7 letters:
eritrea
Alternative clues for the word eritrea
Word definitions for eritrea in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eritrea \Eritrea\ n. 1. a province of N Ethiopia on the Red Sea.
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 ...
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.