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Massaua

American  
[muh-sah-wuh] / məˈsɑ wə /
Or Massawa

noun

  1. a seaport in E Eritrea, in N Ethiopia, on the Red Sea.


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From Kassala, a few miles inside Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, the British pursued Italians 68 miles to Biscia, head of a railway running down to the Red Sea port of Massaua.

From Time Magazine Archive

Italian seamen had boasted that they did a thorough job of destruction when they scuttled or burned or smashed everything useful in Massaua harbor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Massaua, in Eritrea, had once been one of Mussolini's biggest naval bases outside of Italy.

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

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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