Rhapta (Ancient Greek: Ῥάπτα and Ῥαπτά) was an emporion said to be on the coast of Southeast Africa, first described in the 1st century CE. Its location...
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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (section Rhapta)
present locations; for others, there is considerable debate. For instance, "Rhapta" is mentioned as the farthest market down the African coast of "Azania"...
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with Rhapta and Azania, the settlement is mentioned in early Greek writings, such as the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, which describes Rhapta as "the...
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transported cinnamon directly from the Moluccas to East Africa (see also Rhapta), where local traders then carried it north to Alexandria in Egypt. Venetian...
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(west) almost as far as Rhapta in Azania. Citing Marinus of Tyre, Ptolemy adds that a merchant named Theophilos sailed from Rhapta to Aromata in twenty days...
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town of Rhapta as "metropolis" of a political entity called Azania. Archaeologists have not yet succeeded in identifying the location of Rhapta, although...
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settlers have been variously identified with the trading settlements of Rhapta, Azania and Menouthias referenced in early Greek and Chinese writings from...
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Strands", and the "Seven Courses"). Chapter sixteen describes the emporium of Rhapta, located south of the Puralean Islands at the end of the Seven Courses of...
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the Kilwa Sultanate in the Swahili coast by crowding out Azania, with Rhapta being its last stronghold by the 1st century AD, and forming various city...
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expansion Nilotic expansion Indian Ocean trade History of Zanzibar Menouthias Rhapta Urewe culture Swahili culture Kilwa Sultanate Engaruka Colonial period Vasco...
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expansion Nilotic expansion Indian Ocean trade History of Zanzibar Menouthias Rhapta Urewe culture Swahili culture Kilwa Sultanate Engaruka Colonial period Vasco...
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Kingdom of Zimbabwe in the 13th century, and with gold trading links to Rhapta and Kilwa Kisiwani on the African east coast. The Kingdom of Mapungubwe...
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Eventually, a merchant named Diogenes reported that he had traveled inland from Rhapta in East Africa for twenty-five days and had found the source of the Nile...
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settlers have been variously identified with the trading settlements of Rhapta, Azania and Menouthias referenced in early Greek and Chinese writings from...
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to modern-day Tanzania. The Bantu populations crowded out Azania, with Rhapta being its last stronghold by the 1st century AD, and formed various city...
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N/A Josh travels to Zanzibar and Mafia Island in Tanzania in search of Rhapta, a lost city of fortune at the bottom of the ocean that's described as the...
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of Opone is called Azania in the Periplus. Ptolemy describes the city of Rhapta as the "metropolis of Barbaria". Barbaria is also mentioned in Marcian of...
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expansion Nilotic expansion Indian Ocean trade History of Zanzibar Menouthias Rhapta Urewe culture Swahili culture Kilwa Sultanate Engaruka Colonial period Vasco...
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Kingdom of Zimbabwe in the 13th century, and with gold trading links to Rhapta and Kilwa Kisiwani on the African east coast. The Kingdom of Mapungubwe...
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AD 79 Pompeii destroyed AD 1 Caroline Islands colonized 2nd century 150 Rhapta, hint of pre-Swahili, Periplus of the Erythraean Sea 200 Bantu reach east...
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in modern-day Djibouti. Other Himyarite generals went as far as invading Rhapta in modern-day Mozambique. By the 4th century, the rich Himyarite export...
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Lake Tana. Thus, proposed identifications with the ancient metropolis of Rhapta should be rejected. For al-Idrīsī, Badda borders the land of Barbaria. If...
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Africa was well-known to Mediterranean geographers. The trading post of Rhapta, described as "the last marketplace of Azania," may correspond to the coast...
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Kingdom (1000–500 BC) Kingdom of Dʿmt (980–650 BC) Azania (?–1st century AD) (Rhapta) (Southern Cushitic people and the Bantu expansion) Aksumite/Axumite Empire...
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along the Sinus Arabicus (the Red Sea) and, after having touched Adulis and Rhapta (near the border between Tanzania and Mozambique), he marched into the interior...
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century by the Chinese), at least as far as the port known to the Romans as Rhapta, which was probably located in the delta of the Rufiji River in modern Tanzania...
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