Definition of Rhapta. Meaning of Rhapta. Synonyms of Rhapta

- Rhapta (Ancient Gr****: Ῥάπτα and Ῥαπτά) was an emporion said to be on the coast of Southeast Africa, first described in the 1st century CE. Its location...
- present locations; for others, there is considerable debate. For instance, "Rhapta" is mentioned as the ****hest market down the African coast of "Azania"...
- with Rhapta and Azania, the settlement is mentioned in early Gr**** writings, such as the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, which describes Rhapta as "the...
- transported cinnamon directly from the Moluccas to East Africa (see also Rhapta), where local traders then carried it north to Alexandria in Egypt. Venetian...
- (west) almost as far as Rhapta in Azania. Citing Marinus of Tyre, Ptolemy adds that a merchant named Theophilos sailed from Rhapta to Aromata in twenty days...
- town of Rhapta as "metropolis" of a political entity called Azania. Archaeologists have not yet succeeded in identifying the location of Rhapta, although...
- settlers have been variously identified with the trading settlements of Rhapta, Azania and Menouthias referenced in early Gr**** and Chinese writings from...
- Strands", and the "Seven Courses"). Chapter sixteen describes the emporium of Rhapta, located south of the Puralean Islands at the end of the Seven Courses of...
- the Kilwa Sultanate in the Swahili coast by crowding out Azania, with Rhapta being its last stronghold by the 1st century AD, and forming various city...
- expansion Nilotic expansion Indian Ocean trade History of Zanzibar Menouthias Rhapta Urewe culture Swahili culture Kilwa Sultanate Engaruka Colonial period Vasco...