Awdal, Somalia · Africa
18,600
Population
Africa
Continent
Mogadishu
Timezone
SO
Country Code
Zeila (Somali: Saylac, Arabic: زيلع, romanized: Zayla), also known as Zaila or Zayla, is a historical port town in the western Awdal region of Somaliland. In the Middle Ages, the Jewish traveller Benjamin of Tudela identified Zeila with the Biblical location of Havilah. Most modern scholars identify it with the site of Avalites mentioned in the 1st-century Greco-Roman travelogue the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea and in Ptolemy, although this is disputed. The town evolved into an early Islamic c...
Coordinates
11.3539°, 43.4731°
Region/State
Awdal
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Country
Somalia
Region
Awdal
Timezone
Africa/Mogadishu
Population
18,600
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