ERITREA

Eritrea :
Eritrea is the smallest country in the horn of Africa (East Africa ). It extends about 1000km Along the Red sea and has area of (121,144 sq km). Location Eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Djibouti and Sudan. The land varies from temperate central highlands to coastal desert plain, with savanna and open woodlands in the western lowlands. The economy is based on livestock herding and subsistence agriculture. Industry, based in Asmara, includes food products, textiles, and leather goods; exports include salt, hides, cement, and gum Arabic.

GEOGRAPHICAL
Country in northeastern Africa bordered by Sudan to the north and west, Ethiopia to the south, Djibouti to the southeast, and the Red Sea to the east.

Who was rule Eritrea before independence?
There was several colonization in Eritrea before it gate its independence. As the site of the main ports of the Aksumite empire, known by Adoles (Zula Venezuela) it was linked to the beginnings of the Ethiopian kingdom, but it retained much of its independence until it came under Ottoman rule in the 16th century. Again In the 17th – 19th centuries, control of the territory was disputed among Ethiopia, the Ottomans, the kingdom of Tigray, Egypt, and Italy; it became an Italian colony in 1890. Eritrea was used as the main base for the Italian invasions of Ethiopia (1896,1935 – 36) and in 1936 became part of Italian East Africa. It was captured by the British in 1941, federated to Ethiopia in 1952, and made a province of Ethiopia in 1962.

Independence:
After the long struggle ware of 30 years for independence ended in 1991 with the EPLF expelling the Ethiopian Army from Eritrea. Eritrea declared its independence from Ethiopia in 1993 in the month of May date 24.

Economy:
Eritrea's largely agricultural economy was devastated by its 30-year-long indepedence war with Ethiopia and hurt again by the strain of the 1998–2000 border war. Some 70% of the population is involved in farming and herding. The country's agricultural products include sorghum, wheat, corn, cotton, coffee, and tobacco. Cattle, sheep, goats, and camels are raised, and hides are produced. There is a fishing industry and some pearl fisheries remain in the Dahlak Archipelago. The country's natural resources include gold, copper, potash, zinc, iron, and salt, but they have not yet been exploited. Offshore oil exploration was begun in the mid-1990s. Eritrea has little manufacturing beyond food processing, textiles, and building materials.

The capital city of Eritrea:
The capital city of Eritrea was built by the Italian colonial city, Asmara was made the capital city of colonial Eritrea in preference to Massawa by Governor Martini in 1897.Asmara is one of the wonderful capital in Africa, clean and safest capital for travelers. The people of Eritrea make you feel welcome. Asmara have been design and build by the European and us the architects of the capital of Italia Roma, the asmara known by the eritreans as small Roma in the horn of Africa. The street of the city is planted by the attractive palm trees that make u feel as the natural environment.
Asmara is located in the feet of about (2,400m) above sea level from the cost of Red sea the Eritrean highlands on the eastern edge of the escarpment.

ERITREAN FOOD:

There is a large varity of food in Eritrea. The most common food eaten by Eritreans is injera. This is a type of flat bread that is eaten with many different kinds of sauces