How did the country Eritrea come into existence?

Question

I know we've had our independence for 17 years and were colonised by the Italians who then handed us over to Ethiopia...but before colonisation was there an Eritrea? At one point weren't we one country with Ethiopia? The stories my Mum has told me and the information I've read on-line does not match. Someone help please...I'm going to do some research at the library too btw.

Answer 1

The name Eritrea is a rendition of the ancient Greek name Ερυθραία, Erythraía, the "Red Land".

eritrea is one of the oldest states . it came to existance when God first created the earth ! even the bible talks about eritrea and ethiopia as d/f states. it was an indipendent state and it was never part of ethiopia  until the The British expelled the Italians in 1941  and continued to administer the territory  and  in  1951 they handed Eritrea to Ethiopia . the ethiopians conquered eritrea and made it it's 14th provoince but the eritreans rebeled and fought against the ethiopians for 31 straight years and finally in may 24 1991 the gained their freedom .

ethiopia and eritrea have alot of things in common . it's obviuos that they are from the same ancestors but they have always been known as  d/f states

Answer 2

Eritrean history is one of the oldest of Africa and even the world. Together with the western Red Sea coast of Sudan, it is considered the most likely location of the land known to the ancient Egyptians as Punt (or "Ta Netjeru," meaning land of the Gods), whose first mention dates to the 25th century BC. The earliest known reference to the Sea of Eritrea (referring to the Red Sea, "Eritrea" meaning "red") from which the modern state takes its name is from Aeschylus (Fragment 67) in which he refers to the "Mare Erythreum" ("Red Sea") as "the lake that is the jewel of Ethiopia" (though Ethiopia in this case most probably meant Nubia or Africa south of Egypt in general).

Around the 8th century BC, a kingdom known as D'mt was established in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea, with its capital at Yeha in northern Ethiopia. Its successor, the Kingdom of Aksum, emerged around the 1st century BC or 1st century AD and grew to be, according to Mani, one of the four greatest civilizations in the world, along with China, Persia, and Rome. Central areas of Eritrea and most tribes in today's northern Ethiopia share a common background and cultural heritage in the Kingdom of Aksum (and its successor dynasties) of the first millennium (as well as the first millennium BC kingdom of D’mt), and in its Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church (today, with an autocephalous Eritrean branch), as well as in its Ge'ez language. Around 90% of today's Eritreans speak languages (Tigrinya and Tigre) that are closely related to the now-extinct Geez language - as do Tigrinya-speakers in northern Ethiopia and Amharic-speakers of Ethiopia, among others.

Recent discoveries, in and around the area of Sembel, near the capital Asmara, show evidence of a society that predated Aksum. These permanent villages and towns predate those of southern Eritrea and northern Ethiopia suggesting, according to Peter Schmidt, "...it is they, not sites in Arabia that were the vital precursors to urban developments...likewise students of evolution and distribution of languages now believe that Semitic and Cushitic languages are of African origin."

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