Red Sea nation

• Achieved independence from Ethiopia in 1993
• Former Italian colony
• Africa country that won independence from Ethiopia in 1993
• Country in the Horn of Africa
• English liturgy adopted at first around Republican state
• Country bordering the Red Sea
• Republic since 1993
• Flag up region giving away American land

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 ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eritrea \Eritrea\ n. 1. a province of N Ethiopia on the Red Sea.