Ambouli

Town in Djibouti, Djibouti From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ambouli (Arabic: أمبولي) is a southern suburb of Djibouti, Djibouti.

Country Djibouti
Elevation
13 m (43 ft)
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Ambouli
أمبولي
Town
A postcard displaying a local water-seller in Ambouli
A postcard displaying a local water-seller in Ambouli
Ambouliأمبولي is located in Djibouti
Ambouliأمبولي
Ambouli
أمبولي
Location in Djibouti.
Coordinates: 11°35′24″N 43°07′21″E
Country Djibouti
RegionDjibouti
Elevation
13 m (43 ft)
Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)
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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.

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