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" Eritrea - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Miran, Jonathan
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English
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1061528
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ALei1925
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Miran, Jonathan
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Eritrea - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Miran, Jonathan
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(2,349 words)
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Eritrea , a country in northeastern Africa, gained its independence on 24 May 1993. It covers an area of about 121,320 square kilometres, including the Dahlak archipelago, and a coastline of almost one thousand kilometeres on the Red Sea (Erythra Thalassa, in Greek, from which Eritrea takes its name). Bounded in the northwest by Sudan, the south by Ethiopia, and the far southeast by Djibouti, Eritrea comprises the central highland plateau (rising more than two thousand metres above sea-level) extending southwards into Ethiopia, and the western lowland plains and
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Islam.
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ALei1925.pdf
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