Bishia
English
Proper noun
Bishia
- A locality in western Eritrea.
- 1941 August, Charles E. Lee, “Railways of Italian East Africa—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 340:
- By January 26 our Forces had occupied Biscia, the extreme western railhead of the Eritrea Railway, which runs from that town 140 miles to Asmara, and thence to Massaua.
Usage notes
An older spelling seems to be Biscia, which may have been used during Italian rule; see quotation.
References
Biscia (Eritrea) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it