Eritrea

LC control no.	n 93074182
Descriptive conventions	rda
Geographic heading	Eritrea *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Geographic subdivision usage	Eritrea
Variant(s)	ʼArtrā Colonia Eritrea Dawlat Iritriyā Država Eritreja Dŭrzhava Eritrei︠a︡ Eartra Eiritré ʼÉretrā Èritrê Eritrea Riik Eritreako Estatua Ėritreĭ Eritrei︠a︡ Ėritreĭmudin Orn Ėritreĭy Paddzakhad Eritreja Eritrejský stát Eritreo Eritreya Eritreya Dövläti Ērtra Erythraia Érythrée Ėrytrėi︠a︡ Estado de Eritrea État d'Érythrée Government of the State of Eritrea GSE (Government of the State of Eritrea) Gwladwriaeth Eritrea Hagärä Ertra Hagere Ērtra Iritīriyā Iritriyā Kratos tēs Erythraias Provisional Government of Eritrea République d'Érythrée Staat Eritrea Stàir Eartra Stát na hEiritré State of Eritrea Stato dell' Eritrea Staturin Eritrea Steat Eritrea Κράτος της Ερυθραίας Ερυθραία Эрытрэя Эритрей Эритрейы Паддзахад Эритреймудин Орн Държава Еритрея Еритрея إرتريا إرتيريا دولة إرتريا
See also	Eritrea (Ethiopia) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Other standard no.	Q986 0000000121869846 152381756 c34927 35151 a6e771f0-8659-456a-9334-94a451fc81a6 44669 1266183 C109 338010 7001658 D019017 2005d841-29df-3445-8b5c-c981de756bd3 18284-5 concept708
Associated place	Africa Africa, Eastern Horn of Africa
Special note	URIs added to this record for the PCC URI MARC Pilot. Please do not remove or edit the URIs. DESCRIPTIVE USAGE: Includes the provisional government period, May 1991-Apr. 1993, and the current independent country. Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found in	Geographic and global issues, Spring 1993 (On April 17, 1993, Eritrea declared its independence from Ethiopia; the U.S. gov't that day recognized Eritrea as an independent state) Africa south of the Sahara, 1993: p. 340 (In May 1991, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front established Eritrea as a de facto independent state and a provisional govt. was appointed to govern until the referendum planned for 1993; in the meantime, the EPLF moved to eradicate all traces of Ethiopian rule) Guidance bulletin (U.S. Dept. of State. Office of the Geographer), no. 10, 7/12/93 (The conventional short-form name as approved by BGN is Eritrea; the Provisional Government of Eritrea has not yet decided on a long-form name) Phone call to Embassy of Eritrea, 10-4-93 (Eritrea has 9 spoken languages; no official language; govt. uses Arabic and Tigrinya as working languages) The statesman's yearbook, 2000: Eritrea section (Arabic and Tigrinya are the official languages) ʼĀfāwi sena ṣeḥuf qwanqwatāt ʼArtrā, 1998. Eritrea, 1994: p. 4 (ʼÉretrā) Children and women in Eritrea, 1994, 1994: t.p. (logo of the Govt. of Eritrea) spine (GSE) pref. (Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE)) Education for the pastoral communities of Eritrea, 1995: t.p. (State of Eritrea) Foreign names information bulletin, no. 12 (Eritrea [Short form], State of [conventional]; Hagere Ērtra [Tigrinya] [Ērtra short form]) Investment proclamation no. 18/1991, 1992: t.p. (Provisional Government of Eritrea) Wikipedia, July 15, 2006 (Eritrea; State of Eritrea; Hagärä Ertra [in rom.]) Wikipedia, July 4, 2011 (Eritrea; ʼErtrā [in rom.], Arabic: إرتريا = Iritriyā; Iritrīyā [in rom.]), officially the State of Eritrea; Hagere Ertra [in rom.]; دولة إرتريا = Dawlat Iritriyā; Dawlat Iritrīya [in rom.]) Franco-Provençal/Arpitan page (Èritrê) Azerbaijani page (Eritreya [in rom.]; Eritreya Dövläti [in rom.]) Belarusian page (Эрытрэя = Ėrytrėi︠a︡) Bosnian page (Eritreja; Država Eritreja) Bulgarian page (Еритрея = Eritrei︠a︡; Държава Еритрея = Dŭrzhava Eritrei︠a︡) Czech page (Eritrea; Eritrejský stát) Welsh page (Eritrea; Gwladwriaeth Eritrea) German page (Eritrea; Staat Eritrea) Estonian page (Eritrea; Eritrea Riik) Greek page (Ερυθραία = Erythraia; Κράτος της Ερυθραίας = Kratos tēs Erythraias) Spanish page (Eritrea; Estado de Eritrea) Esperanto page (Eritreo) Basque page (Eritrea; Eritreako Estatua) Faroese page (Eritrea; Staturin Eritrea) French page (Érythrée; État d'Érythrée; République d'Érythrée) Irish page (Eiritré; Stát na hEiritré) Manx page (Eritrea; Steat Eritrea) Scottish Gaelic page (Eartra; Stàir Eartra) Galician page (Eritrea; Stato dell' Eritrea; Estado de Eritrea) Kalmyk page (Эритреймудин Орн = Ėritreĭmudin Orn) Ossetian page (Эритрей = Ėritreĭ; Эритрейы Паддзахад = Ėritreĭy Paddzakhad) GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (pcl; 15°00ʹ00ʺN 039°00ʹ00ʺE) Iritīriyā, 2011. Britannica academic (Website), viewed on Jan. 23, 2018: under Eritrea (Eritrea was under British administration from 1941-September 15, 1952; it was then part of Ethiopia; in May 1991 the Eritrean People's Liberation Front assumed control; declared independent on May 24, 1993)
Geographic area code	f-ea--- ER