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It's across the Red Sea from Yemen
Answer for the clue "It's across the Red Sea from Yemen ", 7 letters:
eritrea
Alternative clues for the word eritrea
- A royal flag from the east African land
- Northeast African country
- Red Sea nation
- Asmara's nation
- Land on the Red Sea
- Country's flag raised with backing of American head of state
- Country with hundreds of islands in the Red Sea
- Nation independent of Ethiopia since 1993
- Its flag features an olive branch inside a wreath
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 ...
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.