Is Eritrea people mixed?

Question

People been telling me that Eritrean people have Italian and Indian in them. Is that true?

Answer 1

Historically Eritrea was part of Ethiopia and is a relatively young country. During Mussolini's reign (around the 1930s) there was quite a large African campaign, which included Ethiopia, Somalia, etc. So in Ethiopia there are quite a few remnants of the Italian military campaign and now there are also several mixed-race people.

In Ethiopia there is also a very specific sect of Judaism and these people are known as the Philossians.  

Answer 2

"Eritrean society is ethnically heterogeneous. An independent census has yet to be conducted, but the Tigrinya people and the Tigre people together make up about 80% of the population. These form the bulk of the country's predominantly Semitic population which is thought to have originated from massive migrations from Saba in Southern Arabia between 900 and 500 BC. The Sabean area in Eritrea is mainly to be found in the Kebessa highlands in central and northern Eritrea. There the Sabeans found the same geographical conditions as in their native Saba, suitable for terracing and their pre-existing agricultural modes of production."

"The rest of the population is comprised of the smaller nations of the Saho, Hedareb, Afar, and Bilen, who constitute the cushitic stock of the population and are thought to be some of the oldest inhabitants of the Horn of Africa region along with the nilotic peoples who are represented in Eritrea by the Kunama and Nara."

"There exist minorities of Italians and Ethiopian Tigrayans."

"The most recent addition to the nationalities of Eritrea is the Rashaida. The Rashaida came to Eritrea in the 19th centur from the Arabian Coast. The Rashaida do not typically intermarry, are typically nomadic, and number approximately 61,000, less than 1% of the population."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea#Dem...

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