Sarapion (, also spelled Serapion) was an ancient port city located in the Horn of Africa, believed to be the historical predecessor to Mogadishu.
History Sarapion is mentioned in Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, a travelogue from a Greek merchant in the 1st century CE.
It briefly appears in Ptolemy's Geographia as one of the harbours a trader would encounter after sailing southernly on the Indian Ocean, passing along the way by the Market of Spices (Damo) and the emporium of Opone. The town is believed by modern scholars to have been positioned in the vicinity of Mogadishu and Warsheikh in present-day south-central Somalia.An introduction to Somali history from 5000 years B.C. down to the present time By Mohamed Jama p. 19Boats of the World: From the Stone Age to Medieval Times By Seán McGrail p. 52
See also Maritime history of Somalia
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