Ambouli
Appearance
Ambouli أمبولي | |
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Town | |
![]() A postcard displaying a local water-seller in Ambouli | |
Coordinates: 11°35′24″N 43°07′21″E / 11.59000°N 43.12250°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Region | Djibouti |
Elevation | 13 m (43 ft) |
Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) |
Ambouli (Arabic: أمبولي) is a southern suburb of Djibouti, Djibouti.
Overview
Located in the Djibouti region, O.G.S. Crawford identifies the city with Canbala. Canbala appears in Muhammad al-Idrisi's map of 1192 on the coast of the Horn of Africa, southeast of the straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, and with Cambaleh, a town where the Venetian traveler Bragadino, a thirteenth-century European visitor to Ethiopia, resided for eight years.[1]
Transportation
Since 1948 the town has been the site of Djibouti–Ambouli International Airport.
Notes
- ^ O.G.S. Crawford, "Some Medieval Theories about the Nile", Geographical Journal, 114 (1949), p. 8
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