Erythraea (Italian Eritrea), the name of the Italian colony on the Red Sea (Mare Erythraeum; see ITALY), of which the capital is Massowah (q.v.). Erythraea is also the name of the Centaury (q.v.).
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 419
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