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Place details
- Locality
- ባረንቱ Barentu بارنتو
- Region
- ጋሽ-ባርካ Gash-Barka القاش وبركة
- Country
- ኤርትራ Eritrea إرتريا
- Population
- 15,891
- Timezone
- Africa/Asmara
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Eritrea
- Region
- Gash-Barka
- Subregion
- Barentu
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( EAT )
- Climate
- BSh
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Eritrea
- Located in
- Barentu Subregion
- Population
- 2500
- Elevation
- 1012
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Capital of
- Gash-Barka Region
- Image
- Barentu.jpg
- Significant event
- Siege of Barentu
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- Commons category
- Barentu
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via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Barentu (Tigrinya: ባረንቱ) is a town in north-western Eritrea, lying south of Agordat, and is the capital of Gash-Barka Region. The town is integrated with different types of tribes: Kunama, Nara, Tigre and Tigrinya being the most dominant.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Barentu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.