Rhapta
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Rhapta was an emporion said to be on the coast of Southeast Africa, first described in the 1st century CE. Its location has not been firmly identified, although there are a number of plausible candida
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Barbaria (region)
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Barbaria corresponding Arabic term, bilad al-Barbar was a term applied to the Somali peninsula. The name of Barbaria is preserved today in the name of the Somaliland port city of Berbera, the city kno
Rhapta
…Rhapta is also mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium and Cosmas Indicopleustes. Stephanus of Byzantium and Ptolemy write that Rhapta was a metropolis of Barbaria (Ancient Greek: Βαρβαρίας). According to Huntingford, it is certain that the people of Rhapta did not speak a Bantu language, since the 1st century AD…
Ming depiction of Barbaria from the Sancai Tuhui