File:Assab 1880.jpg

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Asab Bay, Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, the First Italian Settlement in Africa.
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The Graphic, 1880.
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Asab Bay, Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, the First Italian Settlement in Africa.
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English: Asab Bay, Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, the First Italian Settlement in Africa. Illustration for The Graphic, 28 February 1880.

View of the newly-established Italian settlement at Assab, in what was to become Italian Eritrea. Assab Bay was purchased from a local sultan by the Italian navigation company Rubattino in 1869, but the first settlement was established only early 1880. The Italian government acquired Assab in 1882.

Asab Bay, Straits of Bab Mandeb, Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb
Date 28 February 1880
date QS:P571,+1880-02-28T00:00:00Z/11
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