Avalites
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Avalites, also known as Abalitês or Abalita/Abolite, alternatively rendered as Aualites, Aualita, or Avalita, was an ancient port city and trading hub situated in the Horn of Africa during Classical a
Assab Bay, identified as the location of Avalites by Shamsaddin Megalommatis.
Several locations for Havilah are shown
Adulis
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Adulis was an ancient city along the Red Sea in the Gulf of Zula, about 40 kilometers south of Massawa. Its ruins lie within the modern Eritrean city of Zula. It was the emporium considered part of th
Avalites
…in the Horn of Africa during Classical and Late Antiquity. Avalites was one of the principal seaports and commercial centres of Aethiopia alongside Adulis and Mosylon. It is widely believed that Avalites was located near the site that later became the coastal town of Zeila in today’s Awdal region, though…
A 5th-century Byzantine Christian basilica at Adulis, excavated in 1914
Archaeological excavations at Adulis, done by the Italian Roberto Paribeni in 1907