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These statues solidify the Northern Somalia theory of the location of Punt. Researcher Ahmed Ibrahim Awale convincingly presents that the Land of gods is rendered as waqooyi in the somali language. Waqooyi meaning north awale says cones from the root word waaq( god) explains awale. The 1st century AD author of Periplus of the erythrean sea states that the berber(afar and somali) habitat began from berenice(a southern port of egypt) and terminated at opone (hafun puntland )after which he says the settlements of the azanians(zanj/bantu) began. The settlements of the azanians the author says terminated at Rhapta. Diogenes a greek traveller placed Rhapta across from Menouthias island which is disputed between pemba island mafia island or zanzibar all being islands of the country of Tanzania. In the last 2000 years our forefathers were busy earning us the title of being the country with the longest coast.
Heres a portrait of puntites expanding into kismayo in 1888, which at the time was still governed by the sultanate of zanzibar
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