Nikon (Somalia)

This article is about the ancient port. For people with this name, see Nikon.
Ancient
Nikon
Location Somalia
City-state existed: 2nd century

Nikon (alternatively spelled Nicon; Ancient Greek: Νίκων, romanized: Níkōn) was a proto-Somali ancient coastal emporium in the Horn of Africa. It was described in the 1st century CE Greco-Roman travelogue the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea as being situated in the vicinity of Burgabo in the southern Jubaland region of present-day Somalia.

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