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UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Eritrea

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Asmara: A Modernist African City
Cultural Inscribed 2017 Africa

Located at over 2,000 m above sea level, the capital of Eritrea developed from the 1890s onwards as a military outpost for the Italian colonial power. After 1935, Asmara underwent a large scale programme of construction applying the Italian rationalist idiom of the time to govern…

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