Massaua
Americannoun
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He inspected II Duce's colonial Massaua, dedicated a new.-cathedral at Port Said, unflinchingly visited lepers in Colombo, enjoyed receptions in Bombay and Singapore.
From Time Magazine Archive
This town, 2,000 feet up on the Eritrean plateau, is strategically placed at the junction of a railway to Massaua on the Red Sea and a new highway to Addis Ababa.
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Massaua, in Eritrea, had once been one of Mussolini's biggest naval bases outside of Italy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Darwin, Charles
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