Assab
Sign in to saveAssab or Aseb (, ) is a port city in the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea situated on the west coast of the Red Sea. Languages spoken in Assab are predominantly Afar, Tigrinya, and Arabic. It was founded as a port in 1882 by the Rubattino Company; when the Italian government took control of the port in 1882, it laid the foundations for the formation of the colony of Italian Eritrea, which became the independent country of Eritrea following its independence from Ethiopia in the 1990s. thumb|right|Natives fishing in the vicinity of Assab, Eritrea, engraving from a sketch by G.B Licata, March 1
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- Settlement.official_name
- Assab
- Settlement.native_name
- ዓሰብ
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- City
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- صورة كنيسة في عصب - panoramio.jpg
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- Church of St. Michael, Assab
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- Eritrea#Horn of Africa#Africa
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- Location within Eritrea##Location within the Horn of Africa##Location within Africa
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- 1
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- Country
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- Region
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- 25px Eritrea
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Southern Red Sea
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- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Southern Denkalya
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2005
- Settlement.population_total
- 20222
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone
- EAT
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Assab or Aseb (, ) is a port city in the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea situated on the west coast of the Red Sea. Languages spoken in Assab are predominantly Afar, Tigrinya, and Arabic. It was founded as a port in 1882 by the Rubattino Company; when the Italian government took control of the port in 1882, it laid the foundations for the formation of the colony of Italian Eritrea, which became the independent country of Eritrea following its independence from Ethiopia in the 1990s. thumb|right|Natives fishing in the vicinity of Assab, Eritrea, engraving from a sketch by G.B Licata, March 15, 1885.
==History== Assab is about northwest of the ancient city of Arsinoe Epidires.