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MASSAGETAE

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 865 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MASSAGETAE , an See also:

ancient warlike See also:people described by See also:Herodotus (i. 203-216; iv. 22, 172) as dwelling beyond the Araxes (i.e. the See also:Oxus) in what is now See also:Balkh and See also:Bokhara. of See also:Egypt. The See also:Turks were reinstated about 1850, but in 1865 they handed the See also:island back to Egypt for an See also:annual See also:tribute of 22 million piastres. In See also:February 1885 See also:Massawa was occupied by an See also:Italian force, the See also:Egyptian See also:garrison stationed there being withdrawn in the See also:November following (see EGYPT; See also:ITALY; See also:ABYSSINIA). The See also:port was the See also:capital of the Italian See also:colony until 1900 when the seat of See also:administration was removed to See also:Asmara (see See also:ERITREA). For a description of the See also:town in 1769 see the Travels of See also:James See also:Bruce. At that See also:time the See also:governor, though appointed by the Turks, paid one See also:half of the customs receipts to the See also:negus of Abyssinia in return for the See also:protection of that monarch.

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