to 24 May 1991. Eritrea was an Italian colony from the 1880s until the defeat of the Italians by the Allies of World War II in 1941, Eritrea then briefly...
president in 1993, the head of state of Eritrea has been Isaias Afwerki. The president is also the head of government of Eritrea, as well as commander-in-chief...
organised the Eritrean Liberation Front in 1961 and fought the Eritrean War of Independence until Eritrea gained de facto independence in1991. Eritrea gained...
current name. After World War II, Eritrea annexed to Ethiopia. Following the communist Ethiopian government's defeat in1991 by the coalition created by various...
Italian Eritrea (Italian: Colonia Eritrea, "Colony of Eritrea") was a colony of the Kingdom of Italy in the territory of present-day Eritrea. The first...
Religion inEritrea consists of a number of faiths. The two major religions inEritrea are Christianity and Islam. However, the number of adherents of...
Eritreans are the native inhabitants of Eritrea, as well as the global diaspora of Eritrea. Eritreans constitute several component ethnic groups, some...
branches: Eritrean Army, Eritrean Air Force and Eritrean Navy. The Army is by far the largest, followed by the Air Force and Navy. The Commander-in-Chief...
24 May 1991, ending the 30-year-old war for independence from Ethiopia. In addition to being president, Isaias has been the chairman of Eritrea's sole legal...
districts (awrajja) inEritrea when it was annexed by Ethiopia from 1962 to 1991. After independence, the Provisional Government of Eritrea converted the original...
The Eritrean Army is the main branch of the Eritrean Defence Forces and is one of the largest armies in Africa. The main role of the army inEritrea is...
The Eritrea national football team represents Eritreain men's international football and it is controlled by the Eritrean National Football Federation...
As of July 2023[update], Eritrean Airlines had no scheduled service. The airline was nominally established in May 1991 (1991-05), serving as the ground...
currency of Eritrea and was introduced on 15 November 1997 to replace the Ethiopian birr at par. The currency takes its name from the Eritrean town of Nakfa...
Conflicts in the Horn of Africa have been occurring since the 17th century BCE. The Horn of Africa includes the nations of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia...
The Eritrean Catholic Church or Eritrean Eastern Catholic Church is a sui iuris (autonomous) Eastern Catholic church based inEritrea. As a particular...
of Eritrea (Tigrinya: ኣውራጃ ኤርትራ, Arabic: مقاطعة إريتريا) was a province in the far north part of Ethiopia, with its capital city at Asmara. Eritrea gained...
The national emblem of Eritrea was adopted on 24 May 1993 on the occasion of Eritrea's declaration of independence from Ethiopia. The emblem mainly depicts...
is the most popular sport inEritrea. After being under Ethiopian control, Eritrea gained its independence in1991 and in 1998 the country became a member...
was a civil war in Ethiopia and present-day Eritrea, fought between the Ethiopian military junta known as the Derg and Ethiopian-Eritrean anti-government...
Throughout the history of Eritrea, women have played an active role. Eritrean women represented 30 percent of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF)...
ancestry. Eritrea regained its independence from Ethiopia on May 24, 1991, after the Eritrean War of Independence. Since the inception of the war in the 1960s...
The Eritrean Civil Wars were two conflicts that were fought between competing organizations for the liberation of Eritrea. The First Eritrean Civil War...