Erytrea, Eritrea
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Eritrea was awarded to Ethiopia in 1952 as part of a federation. Ethiopia's annexation of Eritrea as a province 10 years later sparked a 30-year struggle for independence that ended in 1991 with Eritrean rebels defeating governmental forces; independence was overwhelmingly approved in a 1993 referendum. A two and a half year border war with Ethiopia that erupted in 1998 ended under UN auspices on 12 December 2000.

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1. Dependency status: NA

2. Government type: transitional government

3. Location: Eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Djibouti and Sudan

4. Border Countries: Djibouti 113 km, Ethiopia 912 km, Sudan 605 km

5. Climate: hot, dry desert strip along Red Sea coast; cooler and wetter in the central highlands (up to 61 cm of rainfall annually); semiarid in western hills and lowlands; rainfall heaviest during June-September except in coastal desert

6. Terrain: dominated by extension of Ethiopian north-south trending highlands, descending on the east to a coastal desert plain, on the northwest to hilly terrain and on the southwest to flat-to-rolling plains

7. Area: 121,320 km2

8. Capital: Asmara (formerly Asmera)

9. Administrative divisions: 8 provinces (singular - awraja); Akale Guzay, Barka, Denkel, Hamasen, Sahil, Semhar, Senhit, Seraye

10. Population: 4,298,269 (July 2001 est.)

11. Languages: Afar, Amharic, Arabic, Tigre and Kunama, Tigrinya, other Cushitic languages

12. Religions: Muslim, Coptic Christian, Roman Catholic, Protestant

13. Currency: nakfa (ERN)

14. Time diference to GMT: NA

15. Original language tekst: NA



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24. Eritrea office in Poland:

  • Ambasada Państwa Erytrei
    Stavanger Strasse 18
    D-10439 Berlin
    tel. (0-0 49 30) 4467460; fax 44674620
    e-mail: er.embassy@freenet.de
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25. Intresting WEB's about Eritrea:

  • Eritrea Network Information Center - the latest news and information on developments, statistics, business, maps, travel information, culture, and population
  • Ethiopia Eritrea Conflict Page - news, commentary, and analysis on the war along with economic information, historical essays, and pictures. Includes essays by Dagmawi
  • Lonely Planet - Destination Eritrea
  • Asmarino.com - online community for Eritreans and friends of Eritrea, with history, news, chat, bulletin boards, poetry, and more. Also offers web hosting services
  • Walta Information Center - daily news, reports, articles, and Ethio-Eritrea conflict analysis
  • Ethnologue: Eritrea - provides an overview of the languages spoken in the country

26. Other WEB's :

  • slowniki.onet.pl - dictionary translating from polish and english, german, french, italian, spanish, russian etc.
  • babelfish.altavista.com - dictionary translaiting both ways in 25 lanquages useful in translating texts
  • Afrika.no - The new Index on Africa
  • SKYTRAX - Links to World Airline sites

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