The Dahlak Archipelago is an Eritrean island group located in the Red Sea, measuring around 643 square km (248 square miles) and lying roughly 58 kilometers...
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Dahlak Kebir (Arabic: دهلك كبير, Italian: Grande Dahlac) is the largest island of the Dahlak Archipelago. Situated in the Red Sea off of the coast of Eritrea...
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The Sultanate of Dahlak was a small medieval kingdom covering the Dahlak Archipelago and parts of the Eritrean coast. First attested in 1093, it quickly...
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List of islands of Eritrea (section Dahlak Archipelago)
This is a list of islands of Eritrea. Dahlak Kebir (formerly Dehalak Deset) Dhuladhiya Dissei (formerly Valentia Island) Dohul Erwa Harat Harmil Howakil...
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Dahlak may refer to: Dahlak Archipelago, an island chain in the Red Sea Dahlik language, a language spoken on three of those islands and in parts of Eritrea...
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Dahalik language (category Dahlak Archipelago)
the people of Dahlak"; also Dahaalik, Dahlik, Dahlak) is an endangered Afroasiatic language spoken exclusively in the Dahlak Archipelago in Eritrea. Its...
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area of approximately 117,600 km2 (45,406 sq mi), and includes the Dahlak Archipelago and several of the Hanish Islands. Human remains found in Eritrea...
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Islands Prince Edward Islands Archipelagos in the Red Sea: Dahlak Archipelago Farasan Islands Hanish Islands Hurghada Archipelago Sa'ad ad-Din Islands Seven...
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Nora (island) (category Dahlak Archipelago)
the second largest island in the Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea, and one of the three inhabited islands of the archipelago. It has an area of 105.15 km2. It...
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on the Red Sea at the northern end of the Gulf of Zula beside the Dahlak Archipelago. It has been a historically important port for many centuries. Massawa...
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time, the Mamluks had conquered the Red Sea areas of Suakin and the Dahlak Archipelago, while attempting to extend their control to the Hejaz (western Arabia)...
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administrative subregion that covers the islands of the Dahlak Archipelago. The capital lies at Jimhil. Dahlak Subregion consists of two large and 124 small islands...
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along the northern three quarters of the Red Sea, and includes the Dahlak Archipelago and the coastal city of Massawa. As of 2005, the region had a population...
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Cherlin's saw-scaled viper Red Sea island between Yemen and Eritrea (Dahlak Archipelago) E. ocellatus Stemmler, 1970 0 African saw-scaled viper Northwest...
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rock in the basin. Oil seeps occur near the Farasan Islands, the Dahlak Archipelago, along the coast of Eritrea, and in the southeastern Red Sea along...
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Bet-Juk, Marya Kayah, Maria Tselam) and Dahalik, which is spoken in Dahlak archipelago. Intelligibility between the dialects is above 91% (except Dahalik)...
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Nakura (category Dahlak Archipelago)
Nakura or Nokra is an Eritrean island in the Dahlak Archipelago situated west of Dahlak Kebir. Nakura has an area of 6.44 km2, and reaches a height of...
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Nocra prison camp (category Dahlak Archipelago)
The Nocra prison camp was an Italian prison camp established on the island of Nocra, off the coast of Massawa, in Italian colony of Eritrea, that was used...
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Muslim migrants occurred a few years later. Arabic inscriptions on the Dahlak Archipelago dated to the mid 9th century AD. confirm the existence of an early...
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Platyceps largeni (redirect from Dahlak racer)
Platyceps largeni, the Dahlak racer, is a species of snake of the family Colubridae. The snake is found in the Dahlak Archipelago in Eritrea. Spawls, S...
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reign, in 1464/1465, Massawa and the Dahlak archipelago were pillaged by emperor Zara Yaqob, and the Sultanate of Dahlak was forced to pay tribute to the...
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Bioko (formerly Fernando Po) Corisco Elobey Grande Elobey Chico Dahlak Archipelago Dahlak Kebir (formerly Dehalak Deset) Harmil Howakil Nahaleg Nora Fatuma...
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Matruh Egypt 1967–1972 Latakia and Tartus Syria 1971–present Nokra, Dahlak Archipelago Ethiopia 1977–1991 Socotra and Aden South Yemen 1971–late 1980s...
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Ad-Temariam, Bet-Juk, Marya Kayah) and Dahalik, which is spoken in the Dahlak Archipelago. Intelligibility between the dialects is above 91% (except Dahalik)...
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Kingdom of Aksum in an event known as the Migration to Abyssinia. The Dahlak Archipelago, now part of Eritrea, came under Muslim rule in the early 8th century;...
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contested by many powers. In the 16th century the Ottomans occupied the Dahlak Archipelago and then Massawa. Also in the 16th century, Eritrea was affected by...
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fictional character in Frank Herbert's Dune universe, father of Farad'n Dahlak Archipelago, an island group in the Red Sea Dalek, fictional aliens in the British...
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and porcelain. From Africa came Ethiopian and Nubian slaves via the Dahlak Archipelago. Umara also mentions taxes on ambergris collection at Bab al-Mandab...
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mystery. Muslim writers occasionally mention both Adulis and the nearby Dahlak Archipelago as places of exile.[citation needed] The evidence suggests that Axum...
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Dahlak (Dahlac) Marine National Park is a national park in the Northern Red Sea Region of Eritrea. It includes part of the Dahlak archipelago and the...
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