Ambouli

Ambouli
أمبولي
Town
Ambouli
أمبولي
Location in Djibouti.
Coordinates: 11°35′24″N 43°07′21″E / 11.59000°N 43.12250°E / 11.59000; 43.12250Coordinates: 11°35′24″N 43°07′21″E / 11.59000°N 43.12250°E / 11.59000; 43.12250
Country  Djibouti
Region Djibouti
Time zone UTC+3 (EAT)

Ambouli (Arabic: أمبولي‎) is a town in eastern Djibouti.

Overview

Located in the Djibouti region, O.G.S. Crawford identifies the city with Canbala. Canbala appears in Muhammad al-Idrisi's map of 1192 on the coast of the Horn of Africa, southeast of the straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, and with Cambaleh, a town where the Venetian traveller Bragadino, a thirteenth-century European visitor to Ethiopia, resided for eight years.[1]

Transportation

Since 1948 the town has been the site of Djibouti–Ambouli International Airport.

Notes

  1. ↑ O.G.S. Crawford, "Some Medieval Theories about the Nile", Geographical Journal, 114 (1949), p. 8

References


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