Eritrea.
Eritrea; a country in East Africa, Africa, on the Red Sea in the Horn of Africa, with Asmara as its capital.
Meaning & usage
Eritrea; a country in East Africa, Africa, on the Red Sea in the Horn of Africa, with Asmara as its capital.
Eritrea ligger ved Rødehavet mellom Sudan, Etiopia og Djibouti.
Eritrea; an Italian colony in East Africa from 1890 to 1941, comprising substantially the territory of the modern country.
Italia opprettet kolonien Eritrea ved Rødehavet i 1890.
Eritrea; the territory under British administration from 1941 to 1952, following the defeat of Italy in East Africa during World War II.
Etter det italienske nederlaget kom Eritrea under britisk administrasjon.
Eritrea; an autonomous unit federated with Ethiopia from 1952 to 1962.
Fra 1952 inngikk Eritrea som en selvstyrt enhet i føderasjon med Etiopia.
Eritrea; a former province of Ethiopia, following its annexation in 1962 and lasting until Ethiopian control collapsed in 1991.
Etiopia annekterte Eritrea som en provins i 1962.
Where this word comes from
Internationalism, ultimately from Italian Eritrea, the name assigned to the Italian possessions on the Red Sea coast when they were constituted as the colony of Eritrea on 1 January 1890. Italian Eritrea was originally an ellipsis of Colonia eritrea (“Erythraean colony”), with eritrea the feminine form of eritreo (“Erythraean; of the Erythraean Sea”). The Italian adjective is from Latin erythraeus (“reddish; Erythraean”), ultimately from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”), from Proto-Hellenic *erutʰrós (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rudʰrós (“red”), from the root *h₁rewdʰ- (“red, ruddy”). The name therefore ultimately refers to the Red Sea, known in Latin as Mare Erythraeum (“Erythraean Sea”). Parallel international adaptations include Danish Eritrea, Swedish Eritrea, German Eritrea, Dutch Eritrea, French Érythrée and English Eritrea.
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