Ambouli Explained

Official Name:Ambouli
أمبولي
Settlement Type:Town
Pushpin Map:Djibouti
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Djibouti.
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Djibouti
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Djibouti
Unit Pref:Metric
Timezone:EAT
Utc Offset:+3
Coordinates:11.59°N 43.1225°W
Elevation M:13

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.

References

Notes and References

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