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Italian Eritreans
Italian community in Eritrea / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Italian Eritreans (or Eritrean Italians, Italian: Italo-eritrei) are Eritrean-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Eritrea during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in Eritrea.
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![]() Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, Asmara, built by the Italians in 1923 and now meeting place of the remaining Eritrean Italians | |
Total population | |
100,000 descendants in 2008[1][2][3] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Asmara, Massawa and Keren | |
Languages | |
Italian, Tigrinya | |
Religion | |
Christian, mostly Roman Catholic | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Italians, Italian Algerians, Italian Angolans, Italian Egyptians, Italian Ethiopians, Italian Libyans, Italian Moroccans, Italian Mozambicans, Italian Somalis, Italian South Africans, Italian Tunisians, Italian Zimbabweans |
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