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Ace the shank said:
the arabian penisular

a roman governor could've ruled over the horn and the Red Sea
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They would probably need to take Yemen too and completely control Red Sea access. Their rule would have to be ridiculously light and limited to a few port cities because I can't see legionaries effectively controlling the hinterlands
 
Ace the shank

Ace the shank

The Good said:
They would probably need to take Yemen too and completely control Red Sea access. Their rule would have to be ridiculously light and limited to a few port cities because I can't see legionaries effectively controlling the hinterlands
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wait didn't the romans was control somalia and Yemen tho
 
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https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Roman-Empire-and-the-Indian-Ocean-ePub/p/10061

"The ancient evidence suggests that international commerce supplied Roman government with up to a third of the revenues that sustained their empire. In ancient times large fleets of Roman merchant ships set sail from Egypt on voyages across the Indian Ocean. They sailed from Roman ports on the Red Sea to distant kingdoms on the east coast of Africa and the seaboard off southern Arabia. Many continued their voyages across the ocean to trade with the rich kingdoms of ancient India. Freighters from the Roman Empire left with bullion and returned with cargo holds filled with valuable trade goods, including exotic African products, Arabian incense and eastern spices.

This book examines Roman commerce with Indian kingdoms from the Indus region to the Tamil lands. It investigates contacts between the Roman Empire and powerful African kingdoms, including the Nilotic regime that ruled Meroe and the rising Axumite Realm. Further chapters explore Roman dealings with the Arab kingdoms of south Arabia, including the Saba-Himyarites and the Hadramaut Regime, which sent caravans along the incense trail to the ancient rock-carved city of Petra."

http://www.ancientportsantiques.com...CES/IndOc-Gulf/IndianOcean-McLaughlin2014.pdf

There are other sources, also archaeological evidence the Romans traded with the Somali port of Bur Gau: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgabo, probably the port of Nikon, named in the Periplus.
 
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Ace the shank

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Grant said:
https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Roman-Empire-and-the-Indian-Ocean-ePub/p/10061

"The ancient evidence suggests that international commerce supplied Roman government with up to a third of the revenues that sustained their empire. In ancient times large fleets of Roman merchant ships set sail from Egypt on voyages across the Indian Ocean. They sailed from Roman ports on the Red Sea to distant kingdoms on the east coast of Africa and the seaboard off southern Arabia. Many continued their voyages across the ocean to trade with the rich kingdoms of ancient India. Freighters from the Roman Empire left with bullion and returned with cargo holds filled with valuable trade goods, including exotic African products, Arabian incense and eastern spices.

This book examines Roman commerce with Indian kingdoms from the Indus region to the Tamil lands. It investigates contacts between the Roman Empire and powerful African kingdoms, including the Nilotic regime that ruled Meroe and the rising Axumite Realm. Further chapters explore Roman dealings with the Arab kingdoms of south Arabia, including the Saba-Himyarites and the Hadramaut Regime, which sent caravans along the incense trail to the ancient rock-carved city of Petra."

http://www.ancientportsantiques.com...CES/IndOc-Gulf/IndianOcean-McLaughlin2014.pdf

There are other sources, also archaeological evidence the Romans traded with the Somali port of Bur Gau: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgabo, probably the port of Nikon, named in the Periplus.
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s your implying that some romans did settle in somalia and intermarried. with the locals
 
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