As mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, a document written by a Greek Mariner in Ancient Antiquity, The Land of Punt had several thriving City-States. Pedanius Dioscorides, a Pharmacologist and Botanist who authored De Materia Medica, noted the city of Mosylon (Bossasso) had a special type of Cinnamon known as Mosyllitic.
Hafun or Xaafuun was known to the Greeks as Opone, Ptolemy's Geographia mentions a famous city called Sarapion which is either Warsheikh or Mogadishu, Essina is either Marka or Baraawe, while Malao is the current Port-City of Berbera. The ancient city of Mundus is Heis in Somaliland's Sanaag. There was also a city called Nikon in Somali historical antiquity.
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