Nation east of Sudan

• It gained its independence from Ethiopia in 1991
• English liturgy adopted at first around Republican state
• Part of Italian East Africa
• Border disputer with Ethiopia
• Neighbor of Sudan
• Asmara's province
• It's across the Red Sea from Yemen
• Red Sea land

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Eritrea ( or ) officially the State of Eritrea , is a country in the Horn of Africa . With its capital at Asmara , it is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast. The northeastern and eastern parts of Eritrea have ...

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 ...