Azania

Map of Africa, Description de l'univers (1683); Azania is circled.

Azania (Ancient Greek: Ἀζανία)^[1] is a name that has been applied to various parts of southeastern tropical Africa.^[2] In the Roman period and perhaps earlier, the toponym has been hypothesised to have referred to a portion of the Southeast Africa coast extending from southern Somalia to the border between Mozambique and South Africa.^[3][4] If this is correct, then during classical antiquity Azania was mostly inhabited by Southern Cushitic peoples, whose groups would rule the area until the great Bantu Migration.^[5][6]