Asmara, Eritrea

Eritrea

Asmara, Eritrea carries 181 connections with 9733 places across 24 topics, with government, history, military, and music as the leading threads. Ethiopia and Italy rank among its most-shared co-connected places, reflecting the city's contested colonial and post-colonial history. Italian settlement transformed Asmara's built fabric: the 1939 census counted 98,000 residents, 53,000 of them Italian, producing the Art Deco streets and the Great Mosque of Asmara, completed in 1936.