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Malao

1 – 300
City-stateAfrica

Trading port at modern Berbera. Per the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, the least contentious and most peaceable of the Barbaria-coast emporia, maintaining an active monetary market that exchanged goods in Roman-minted currency, and the closest African port to Arabia.

Underlying site continued in use as the modern city of Berbera; the specific ancient port's transition/decline is undocumented in the sources checked.

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