Ambouli

Town in Djibouti, Djibouti
11°35′24″N 43°07′21″E / 11.59000°N 43.12250°E / 11.59000; 43.12250Country DjiboutiRegionDjiboutiElevation
13 m (43 ft)Time zoneUTC+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

  1. ^ O.G.S. Crawford, "Some Medieval Theories about the Nile", Geographical Journal, 114 (1949), p. 8

References

  • Ambouli, Djibouti


  • v
  • t
  • e