capital federation of ethiopia and eritrea
Eritrea ( or ), officially the State of Eritrea , is a country in the ___MASK90___ of Africa . With its capital at Asmara , it is bordered by Sudan in the west , Ethiopia in the south , and Djibouti in the southeast . The northeastern and eastern parts of Eritrea have an extensive coastline along the Red Sea . The nation has a total area of approximately , and includes the Dahlak Archipelago and several of the Hanish Islands . Its toponym " Eritrea " is based on the Greek name for the Red Sea , which was first adopted for Italian Eritrea in 1890 . Solomon (" Šlomo "; " Shlemun "; ', also colloquially : ' or '; " Solomn "), also called Jedidiah "' ( Hebrew ), was , according to the Bible ( Book of Kings : 1 Kings 1  11 ; Book of Chronicles : 1 Chronicles 28  29 , 2 Chronicles 1  9 ), Quran , hadith and " Hidden Words " a fabulously wealthy and wise king of Israel and a son of David , the previous king of Israel . The conventional dates of Solomon ' s reign are circa 970 to 931 BC , normally given in alignment with the dates of David ' s reign . He is described as the third king of the United Monarchy , which would break apart into the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah shortly after his death . Following the ___MASK83___ , his patrilineal descendants ruled over Judah alone . ___MASK64___ (; ', , ), officially the Republic of ___MASK64___ , is a country located in the ___MASK90___ of Africa . It is bordered by Eritrea in the north , Ethiopia in the west and south , and Somalia in the southeast . The remainder of the border is formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden at the east . ___MASK64___ occupies a total area of just . The ansh Islands are an island group in the Red Sea . ___MASK40___ of them are a part of Yemen , but before 1998 they were claimed by Eritrea as well . After a case in an international court under the guidance of Abdul Karim al - Iryani , Yemen was granted full ownership of the larger Islands , and Eritrea was awarded the peripheral islands to the southwest . The Zagwe dynasty (  ) was a historical kingdom in present - day northern Ethiopia . Centered at ___MASK89___ , it ruled large parts of the territory from approximately 900 to 1270 , when the last Zagwe King Za - Ilmaknun was killed in battle by the forces of the Abyssinian King Yekuno Amlak . The name of the dynasty is thought to derive from the Ge ' ez phrase " Ze - Agaw ", meaning " Dynasty of the Agaw " in reference to the Agaw people that constituted its ruling class . Zagwe ' s best - known King was Gebre Mesqel ___MASK89___ , who is credited with having constructed the rock - hewn churches of ___MASK89___ . The ___MASK90___ of Africa (, " yäafrika qänd ", " al - qarn al -' afrq ") ( shortened to HOA ) is a peninsula in Northeast Africa . It juts hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian Sea and lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden . The area is the easternmost projection of the African continent . The ___MASK90___ of Africa denotes the region containing the countries of Djibouti , Eritrea , Ethiopia , and Somalia . The Federation of Ethiopia and Eritrea or Ethiopian -- Eritrean Federation was a federation of the Ethiopian Empire and Eritrea . It was created by the approval of the Federal Act in Ethiopia and the Eritrean Constitution on 15 September 1952 . Prior to the annexation of Eritrea , the Chief Justice of Eritrea was removed and the official Eritrean languages were eliminated in favor of Ethiopia ' s national language Amharic . During the Federation , the encroachment of the Ethiopian Crown was felt on the Chief Executive of Eritrea . This was in direct contravention of the UN Resolution 390 - A ( V ) which had established the Federation . The federal structure , or some semblance of it , existed between 15 September 1952 and 15 November 1962 . On 15 November 1962 , following pressure from Haile Selassie I on the Eritrean Assembly , the Federation was officially dissolved and Eritrea was annexed by Ethiopia . ___MASK95___ (" Asmera "), known locally as Asmera ( meaning " They [ feminine plural ] made them unite " in Tigrinya ), is the capital ___MASK6___ and largest settlement in Eritrea . Home to a population of just over 1 , 000 , 000 inhabitants , it sits at an elevation of . The ___MASK6___ is located at the tip of an escarpment that is both the northwestern edge of the Eritrean highlands and the Great Rift Valley in neighbouring Ethiopia . The Ethiopian Empire , also known as Abyssinia ( derived from the Arabic " al - Habash "), was a kingdom that spanned a geographical area covered by the northern half of the current state of Ethiopia . It existed from approximately 1137 ( beginning of Zagwe dynasty ) until 1974 , when the Solomonic dynasty was overthrown in a "". The Red Sea ( also the Erythraean Sea ) is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean , lying between Africa and Asia . The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of ___MASK69___ . To the north lie the Sinai Peninsula , the Gulf of Aqaba , and the Gulf of ___MASK33___ ( leading to the ___MASK33___ Canal ). The Red Sea is a Global 200 ecoregion . The sea is underlain by the Red Sea Rift which is part of the Great Rift Valley . The Dahlak Archipelago ( Ge ' ez :  ) is an island group located in the Red Sea near Massawa , Eritrea . It consists of two large and 124 small islands . The pearl fisheries of the archipelago have been famous since ___MASK15___ times and still produce a substantial number of pearls . The Solomonic dynasty , also known as the House of Solomon , is the former ruling Imperial House of the Ethiopian Empire . Its members claim patrilineal descent from King Solomon of Israel and the Queen of Sheba . Tradition asserts that the Queen gave birth to Menelik I after her biblically described visit to Solomon in ___MASK2___ . Ethiopia ('), officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia "' (     , " yetiyoya Fdralaw Dmokirasyaw Rpebilk " ), is a country located in the ___MASK90___ of Africa . It shares borders with Eritrea to the north and northeast , Djibouti and Somalia to the east , Sudan and South Sudan to the west , and Kenya to the south . With nearly 100 million inhabitants , Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world , as well as the second - most populous nation on the African continent after Nigeria . It occupies a total area of , and its capital and largest city is ___MASK92___ .