Essina

Ancient
Essina
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Location Somalia
City-state existed: 2nd century

Essina (Ancient Greek: Εσσίνα) was an ancient Proto-Somali emporium located on the southeastern coast of Somalia in the Horn of Africa.[1]

  1. ^ Ptolemy's Topography of Eastern Equatorial Africa, by Henry Schlichter Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography © 1891 - pg 443