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The Harla is an extinct people credited for building various monuments in the Horn Africa are possible candidates of Proto-Somali. [ 6 ] After the collapse of Macrobia, several proto-Somali ancient wealthy city-states emerged, such as Malao , Mundus , Mosylon and, Opone , which competed with the Sabaeans , Parthians , and Axumites for the ...
Gondal is a proto-Somali archaeological site in southern Somalia. The site of ancient ruins, [1] it is considered a predecessor of Kismayo. [2] See also. Abasa;
The proto-Vietic peoples are believed to have migrated by land from China to Laos and Vietnam through the Mekong, where they had settled for at least 4,500 years.Although there is no good estimate, paleolithic human sites around the modern Vietic villages in Laos and Nghe An are dated 2,500 to 2,000 BC, indicates that perhaps they were. [3]
The city of Essina is believed to have been the predecessor state of Merca. It used to be an ancient Proto-Somali emporium city-state. [3] It is mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, a Greek travel document dating from the first century AD, as one of a series of commercial ports on the Somali littoral. [4]
Ancient Egyptian, Roman and Persian Gulf pottery has been recovered from the site by an archaeological team from the University of Michigan.In the 1970s, Neville Chittick, a British archaeologist, initiated the British-Somali expedition where he and his Somali colleagues encountered remains of ancient drystone walls, houses with courtyards, and the location of the old harbour.
Somalia, [a] officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, [b] is the easternmost country in continental Africa.The country is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti [14] to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, and the Indian Ocean to the east.
Somali, plural of Somalo, former Somali currency; Somali Plate, a tectonic plate which covers the eastern part of Africa; Somalia, a country in the Horn of Africa; Somaliland, an unrecognised state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as de jure part of Somalia; Somali Region, a Somali-inhabited region of Ethiopia
Keith Taylor (2014) speculates that, the Lac Viet were either Proto-Viet-Muong speakers or Khmuic speakers, another Austroasiatic group who inhabit northwest Vietnam and northern Laos. [33]