Official Name: | Toniki |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Somalia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Somalia. |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Somalia |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Lower Shabelle |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Barawa |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Timezone: | EAT |
Utc Offset: | +3 |
Toniki (Ancient Greek: Τωνική) was an ancient proto-Somali market town on the coast of the southeastern Lower Shabelle province of Somalia.
Toniki is believed to have been situated in the vicinity of Makasi in the present-day Barawa District.[1]
It was one of a series of ancient commercial ports along the coast of Somalia, which were described in the 1st century CE Greco-Roman travelogue the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, as well as in Ptolemy's Geographia.[1] Nearby market towns included Essina and Sarapion to the immediate north.[2]