Country across the sea from Yemen

• Ethiopia neighbor
• Red Sea nation
• It's across the Red Sea from Yemen
• African seceder of 1993
• 1890-1941 Italian colony
• Sudan neighbor
• Northern neighbor of Ethiopia
• Modern home of the ancient Aksumite empire

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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 ...

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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 ...