Massaua

or Mas·sa·wa

[ muh-sah-wuh ]

noun

1. a seaport in E Eritrea, in N Ethiopia, on the Red Sea.

Example Sentences

This town, 2,000 feet up on the Eritrean plateau, is strategically placed at the junction of a railway to Massaua on the Red Sea and a new highway to Addis Ababa.

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Ellsberg had arrived in Massaua in March.

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A U.S. naval officer, taking a breather in Cairo last week, perspired comfortably and wished that the Italians could see what had happened at the Red Sea port of Massaua.

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Massaua, in Eritrea, had once been one of Mussolini's biggest naval bases outside of Italy.

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The press knew what he meant: with the fall of Massaua in Eritrea, U.S. ships would begin hauling supplies to the English by a 12,000-mile route skirting Africa, around the Cape of Good Hope, up the Indian Ocean to Aden.

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