Editing Assab (section)

{{short description|Port city in Southern Red Sea Afar Region, Eritrea}}
{{Distinguish|Asab}}
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| official_name            = Assab
| native_name              = عصب<br>ዓሰብ
| settlement_type          = City
| image_skyline            = صورة كنيسة في عصب - panoramio.jpg
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| image_caption            = Church of St. Michael, Assab
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| pushpin_map              = Eritrea#Horn of Africa#Africa
| pushpin_map_caption      = Location within Eritrea##Location within the Horn of Africa##Location within Africa
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| subdivision_type         = [[Countries of the world|Country]]
| subdivision_type1        = [[Regions of Eritrea|Region]]
| subdivision_name         = [[File:Flag of Eritrea.svg|25px]] [[Eritrea]]
| subdivision_name1        = [[Southern Red Sea Region|Southern Red Sea]]
| subdivision_type2        = [[Districts of Eritrea|District]]
| subdivision_name2        = [[Southern Denkalya District|Southern Denkalya]]
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| population_as_of         = 2005
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| population_total         = 20222
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| timezone                 = [[East Africa Time|EAT]]
| utc_offset               = +03:00
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| elevation_m              = 16
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| blank_info               = [[Desert climate#Hot desert climates|BWh]]
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'''Assab''' or '''Aseb''' ({{Langx|ti|ዓሰብ}}, {{Langx|ar|عصب}}) is a port city in the [[Southern Red Sea Region]] of [[Eritrea]]. It is situated on the west coast of the [[Red Sea]].
Languages spoken in Assab are predominantly [[Afar language|Afar]], [[Tigrinya language|Tigrinya]], and [[Arabic]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society [3 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society |isbn = 9781598846669|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YjoVCwAAQBAJ&q=languages+spoken+in+Assab&pg=PA433|last1 = Falola|first1 = Toyin|last2 = Jean-Jacques|first2 = Daniel|date = 14 December 2015| publisher=Abc-Clio }}</ref> After the Italian government took control of the port in 1882, it laid the foundations for the formation of the colony of [[Italian Eritrea]], which became the independent country of [[Eritrea]] following its independence from [[Ethiopia]] in the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Asseb Eritrea |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Asseb |website=Britannica}}</ref>
[[File:Natives fishing in the vicinity of Assab (1885).jpg|thumb|right|Natives fishing in the vicinity of Assab, Eritrea, engraving from a sketch by G.B Licata, March 15, 1885.]]