Massaua
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Massaua, in Eritrea, had once been one of Mussolini's biggest naval bases outside of Italy.
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Beyond Asmara lies Massaua, Eritrea's only good port, which the Royal Navy had tightly corked and hoped soon to possess.
From Time Magazine Archive
That is Massaua, port city in the Italian colony of Eritrea, as described today by one of the first men to reach Djibouti from Massaua, in several weeks.
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Italian seamen had boasted that they did a thorough job of destruction when they scuttled or burned or smashed everything useful in Massaua harbor.
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The pearl-fishers at Yemen and Massaua asserted that there was no coral near the pearl-banks at nine fathoms depth, but only sand.
From Coral Reefs by Charles Darwin
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