Barbaria (region)

See also: Ancient Somali city-states
Not to be confused with Barbary Coast.

Barbaria corresponding Arabic term, bilad al-Barbar (land of the Barbar) was a term applied to the Somali peninsular The name of Barbaria is preserved today in the name of the Somaliland port city of Berbera, the city known to the Greeks as Malao.

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