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Today's history lesson: The city formerly known as Malao

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:48 pm
by admin
After Avalites there is another market-town, better than this, called Malao, distant a sail of about eight hundred stadia. The anchorage is an open roadstead, sheltered by a spit running out from the east. Here the natives are more peaceable. There are imported into this place the things already mentioned, and many tunics, cloaks from Arsinoe, dressed and dyed; drinking-cups, sheets of soft copper in small quantity, iron, and gold and silver coin, not much. There are exported from these places myrrh, a little frankincense, (that known as far-side), the harder cinnamon, duaca, Indian copal and macir, which are imported into Arabia; and slaves, but rarely.
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http://sthweb.bu.edu/archives/index.php ... le=Berbera

Re: Today's history lesson: The city formerly known as Malao

Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:04 am
by Somaliman50
I have seen some buildings in Berbera built by the ottoman empire. Really fascinating. Anyway thanks for that.