Erythrea, a colony belonging to Italy, extending from Cape Kasar 670 m. along the western shore of the Red Sea to a point in the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb; Massowah the capital.
Population (circa 1900) given as 220,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Erythema * Erythrean Sea