Tigre, spoken in western and northern Eritrea , is considered to resemble Ge'ez more so than do the other derivative languages.

Tigre is the lingua franca of the multi-ethnic lowlands of western and northern Eritrea, including the northern coast.

They were then trucked inland into the arid rocky mountains and canyons of northern Eritrea.

But their treatment gradually improved and their final captivity was Orotta, the administrative and industrial headquarters of the rebel front in northern Eritrea.

Carobel is a small town in northern Eritrea.

Prisoners visited at a camp in northern Eritrea seem dejected but not ill-fed.

He said Afabet was considered strategically important because it was the main Government military depot in northern Eritrea for 10 years.

The EPLF withdrew to a mountain base in northern Eritrea, around the town of Nakfa.

An illustrative example of this policy was the village of Basik Dera in northern Eritrea.

December 1813: northern Ethiopia (modern day northern Eritrea) is occupied by Egypt until 1826.