Assab Bay
an Italian trading station on the W. coast of the Red Sea, 40 area of 243 square miles, and 1,300 intion on the W. coast of the Red Sea, 40 ASSAB BAY, an Italian trading stakil chieftains to an Italian steam- Mandeb. The district around it, with an Danakil habitants, was sold in 1870 by some ship company for a coaling station on the rected a lighthouse. road to India. In 1880 it was taken over by the Italian Government, who, since 1884, have improved the harbor and ASSAL