Mereb River
…south. The territories under the Bahr negash extended as far north as the Red Sea coast, and as far south (and west) as Shire and the capital was at Debarwa in modern Eritrea, about 20 miles (30 km) south of Asmara. The river's Eritrean floodplain was the location of a 2001 sighting of a sizable elephant…