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Hafun, the Glossary

Hafun (Xaafuun; حافون; Opṓnē, Dante) is a town in the northeastern Bari province of Somalia.^[1]

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Ancient Greek geography of East Africa

Achaemenid Empire

The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.

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Administrative divisions of Somalia

Somalia is officially divided into 18 administrative regions (gobollo, singular gobol).

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Ancient Greek units of measurement

Ancient Greek units of measurement varied according to location and epoch.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Azania

Azania (Ἀζανία) is a name that has been applied to various parts of southeastern tropical Africa. Hafun and Azania are ancient Greek geography of East Africa.

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Bari, Somalia

Bari (Bari, بري) is an administrative region (gobol) in northeastern Somalia.

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Bosaso

Bosaso (Boosaaso, بوصاصو), historically known as Bender Cassim is a city in the northeastern Bari province (gobol) of Somalia.

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British people

British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.

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Castle

A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders.

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Cinnamon

Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several tree species from the genus Cinnamomum.

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Clove

Cloves are the aromatic flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae, Syzygium aromaticum.

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Courtyard

A courtyard or court is a circumscribed area, often surrounded by a building or complex, that is open to the sky.

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Damo, Somalia

Damo (Daamo) is a historic port town located in northeastern Somalia.

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Darod

The Darod (Daarood, دارود) is a Somali clan.

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Dry stone

Dry stone, sometimes called drystack or, in Scotland, drystane, is a building method by which structures are constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together.

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East Africa

East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape.

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East Africa Time

East Africa Time, or EAT, is a time zone used in eastern Africa.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Far East

The Far East is the geographical region that encompasses the easternmost portion of the Asian continent, including East, North, and Southeast Asia.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Fortification

A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime.

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Galkayo

Galkayo (Gaalkacyo, جالكعيو,Dr Badal Kariye Ba Bsit Ma Mba & Phd, The Kaleidoscopic Lover: The Civil War in the Horn of Africa & My Itinerary for a Peaceful Lover, (AuthorHouse: 2010), p.116. Italian: Gallacaio also known as Rocca Littorio) is the third-largest city in Somalia which serves as the capital of the north-central Mudug region.

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Garoowe

Garowe (Garoowe, غَاْرَّوْؤَيَ,; Garoe) is the capital city of Puntland located in northeastern Somalia.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Greeks

The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..

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Guardafui Channel

The Guardafui Channel (Marinka Gardafuul) is an oceanic strait off the tip of the Horn of Africa that lies between the Puntland region of Somalia and the Socotra governorate of Yemen to the west of the Arabian Sea.

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Hafun District

Hafun District is a district in the northeastern Bari or Puntland Region of Somalia.

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Hafun Fishing Company

The Hafun Fishing Company (HFC) was a fishing and real estate firm headquartered in Bosaso, the commercial capital of the autonomous Puntland regional state in northeastern Somalia.

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Hafun Salt Factory

Hafun Salt Factory (called initially Saline Dante in Italian) was the biggest salt factory in the world during the 1930s.

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Harbor

A harbor (American English), or harbour (Canadian English, British English; see spelling differences), is a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be moored.

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Helen Chapin Metz

Helen Chapin Metz (April 12, 1928 – May 13, 2011) was an American editor and Middle East analyst.

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Hide (skin)

A hide or skin is an animal skin treated for human use.

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History of India

Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago.

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Incense

Incense is an aromatic biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Italian Somaliland

Italian Somaliland (Somalia Italiana; Al-Sumal Al-Italiy; Dhulka Soomaalida ee Talyaaniga) was a protectorate and later colony of the Kingdom of Italy in present-day Somalia, which was ruled in the 19th century by the Sultanate of Hobyo and Majeerteen in the north, and in the south by the political entities; Hiraab Imamate and the Geledi Sultanate.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Ivory

Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally from elephants) and teeth of animals, that consists mainly of dentine, one of the physical structures of teeth and tusks.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

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Land of Punt

The Land of Punt (Egyptian: pwnt; alternate Egyptological readings Pwene(t)) was an ancient kingdom known from Ancient Egyptian trade records.

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Lobster

Lobsters are malacostracans of the family Nephropidae (synonym Homaridae).

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Majeerteen

The Majeerteen, (Majeerteen, ماجرتين; also spelled Majerteen, Macherten, Majertain, or Mijurtin) alternately known as Mohammed Harti, are a prominent Somali sub-clan of the Harti, which falls under the Darod conglomerate of clans.

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Majeerteen Sultanate

The Majeerteen Sultanate (lit, سلطنة مجرتين), or Majerteen Kingdom also known as Majeerteenia and Migiurtinia, was a Somali kingdom centered in the Horn of Africa.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.

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Middle Kingdom of Egypt

The Middle Kingdom of Egypt (also known as The Period of Reunification) is the period in the history of ancient Egypt following a period of political division known as the First Intermediate Period.

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Mokha

Mokha (al-Mukhā), also spelled Mocha, or Mukha, is a port city on the Red Sea coast of Yemen.

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Monarchy

A monarchy is a form of government in which a person, the monarch, is head of state for life or until abdication.

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Mycenaean Greece

Mycenaean Greece (or the Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC.

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Nabataean Kingdom

The Nabataean Kingdom (Nabataean Aramaic: 𐢕𐢃𐢋𐢈 Nabāṭū), also named Nabatea, was a political state of the Nabataeans during classical antiquity.

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Neville Chittick

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New Kingdom of Egypt

The New Kingdom, also referred to as the Egyptian Empire, was the ancient Egyptian state between the 16th century BC and the 11th century BC.

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Ocean current

An ocean current is a continuous, directed movement of seawater generated by a number of forces acting upon the water, including wind, the Coriolis effect, breaking waves, cabbeling, and temperature and salinity differences.

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Old Kingdom of Egypt

In ancient Egyptian history, the Old Kingdom is the period spanning –2200 BC.

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Oman

Oman, officially the Sultanate of Oman, is a country in West Asia.

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Opone

Opone (Ὀπώνη ἐμπόριον) was an ancient seaport and emporium located in present-day Somalia. Hafun and Opone are ancient Greek geography of East Africa.

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Osman Mohamoud (king)

Osman Mahamuud (Cismaan Maxamuud, عثمان محمود), also known as Uthman III ibn Mahmud, was a Somali king.

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea

The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (Περίπλους τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς Θαλάσσης, Períplous tē̂s Erythrâs Thalássēs), also known by its Latin name as the, is a Greco-Roman periplus written in Koine Greek that describes navigation and trading opportunities from Roman Egyptian ports like Berenice Troglodytica along the coast of the Red Sea and others along the Horn of Africa, the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean, including the modern-day Sindh region of Pakistan and southwestern regions of India.

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Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf (Fars), sometimes called the (Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in West Asia.

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Phoenicia

Phoenicia, or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon.

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Proto-Somali

Proto-Somalis were the ancient people and ancestors of Somalis who lived in present-day Somalia.

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Puntland

Puntland (Puntland, أرض البنط, Terra di Punt or Paese di Punt), officially the Puntland State of Somalia (Dowlad Goboleedka Puntland ee Soomaaliya, ولاية أرض البنط الصومالية), is a Federal Member State in northeastern Somalia.

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Puntland Highway Authority (PHA) is a government body, established by law no.

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Ras Hafun

Ras Hafun (Ras Xaafuun, رأس حافون, Capo Hafun), also known as Cape Hafun, is a promontory in the northeastern Bari region of the Puntland state in Somalia.

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Red Sea

The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Salt

In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).

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Shark meat

Shark meat is a seafood consisting of the flesh of sharks.

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Shell money

Shell money is a medium of exchange similar to coin money and other forms of commodity money, and was once commonly used in many parts of the world.

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Somali aristocratic and court titles

This is a list of Somali aristocratic and court titles that were historically used by the Somali people's various sultanates, kingdoms and empires.

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Somali people

The Somali people (Soomaalida, Osmanya: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒆𐒖, Wadaad) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Horn of Africa who share a common ancestry, culture and history.

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Somalia

Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa.

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Spice

In the culinary arts, a spice is any seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance in a form primarily used for flavoring or coloring food.

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States and regions of Somalia

Somalia is a federal republic consisting of six federal states, Puntland, Jubaland, Galmudug, Khaatumo, South West and Hirshaabelle and one interim administration.

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Tomb

A tomb (τύμβος tumbos) or sepulcher (sepulcrum.) is a repository for the remains of the dead.

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Tortoiseshell

Tortoiseshell or tortoise shell is a material produced from the shells of the larger species of tortoise and turtle, mainly the hawksbill sea turtle, which is a critically endangered species according to the IUCN Red List largely because of its exploitation for this trade.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafun

Also known as Xaafuun, Xaafuun District.

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