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Britannica 11th

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Britannica 11th

ASMARA, the capital of the Italian colony of Eritrea, ' Africa. It is built on the Hamasen plateau, near its eastern edge, at an elevation of 7800 ft., and is some 40 m. W.S.W. in a direct line of the seaport of Massawa. Pop. (1004) about oooo, including the g ...

Vol. 2, pp. 763-763 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0

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