Sarapion
Encyclopedia
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Sarapion
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| Somalia
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| City-state existed:
| 2nd century
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Sarapion
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| Location
| Somalia
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| City-state existed:
| 2nd century
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Sarapion
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| Location
| Somalia
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| City-state existed:
| 2nd century
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Sarapion or Serapion was an ancient port city located on the Somali peninsula. It was briefly mentioned in Ptolemy
's Geographia as one of the harbours a trader would encounter after sailing in a southernly direction on the Indian Ocean
, passing by the Market of Spices
and the emporium of Opone along the way. It is believed by modern scholars to have been positioned in the vicinity of Mogadishu
and Warsheikh
.
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| colspan="2" style="margin-left: inherit; background:#DEB887; text-align:center; font-size: medium;" |Ancient
Sarapion
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|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| Location
| Somalia
Somalia
Somalia , officially the Somali Republic and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under Socialist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. Since the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991 there has been no central government control over most of the country's territory...
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| City-state existed:
| 2nd century
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|- align="center"
| colspan="2" |
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| colspan="2" style="margin-left: inherit; background:#DEB887; text-align:center; font-size: medium;" |Ancient
Sarapion
|- align="center"
| colspan="2" |
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| Location
| Somalia
Somalia
Somalia , officially the Somali Republic and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under Socialist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. Since the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991 there has been no central government control over most of the country's territory...
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| City-state existed:
| 2nd century
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
|- align="center"
| colspan="2" |
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| colspan="2" style="margin-left: inherit; background:#DEB887; text-align:center; font-size: medium;" |Ancient
Sarapion
|- align="center"
| colspan="2" |
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| Location
| Somalia
Somalia
Somalia , officially the Somali Republic and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under Socialist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. Since the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991 there has been no central government control over most of the country's territory...
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| City-state existed:
| 2nd century
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
|- align="center"
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Sarapion or Serapion was an ancient port city located on the Somali peninsula. It was briefly mentioned in Ptolemy
Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy , was a Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in Egypt under Roman rule, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the...
's Geographia as one of the harbours a trader would encounter after sailing in a southernly direction on the Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...
, passing by the Market of Spices
Damo, Somalia
Damo is a historic Somali settlement in Northeast Somalia 5 km west of Cape Guardafui. About 1 km east of the settlement lie ancient ruins that Neville Chittick equates with the Market of Spices mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea 2000 years ago. Unglazed pottery imported from the...
and the emporium of Opone along the way. It is believed by modern scholars to have been positioned in the vicinity of Mogadishu
Mogadishu
Mogadishu , popularly known as Xamar, is the largest city in Somalia and the nation's capital. Located in the coastal Benadir region on the Indian Ocean, the city has served as an important port for centuries....
and Warsheikh
Warsheikh
Warsheikh is a town in the southeastern Shabeellaha Dhexe region of Somalia...
.
See also
- Essina
- Malao
- Opone
- Mosylon
- Somali maritime historySomali maritime historyMaritime history of Somalia refers to the seafaring tradition of the Somali people. It includes various stages of Somali navigational technology, shipbuilding and design, as well as the history of the Somali port cities...
- Periplus of the Erythraean SeaPeriplus of the Erythraean SeaThe Periplus of the Erythraean Sea or Periplus of the Red Sea is a Greco-Roman periplus, written in Greek, describing navigation and trading opportunities from Roman Egyptian ports like Berenice along the coast of the Red Sea, and others along Northeast Africa and India...
- History of SomaliaHistory of SomaliaSomalia , officially the Republic of Somalia and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya on its southwest, the Gulf of Aden with Yemen on its north, the Indian Ocean at its east, and Ethiopia...
