Aualites Sinus
Αὐαλίτης κόλπος
Aualites Sinus (Αὐαλίτης κόλπος, Steph. B. sub voce Ἀβαλίτης in some manuscripts of Ptolemy, 4.7. § § 27, 39; Plin. Nat. 6.29. s. 34; Arrian. Perip. Mar. Eryth. p. 6: Eth. Αὐαλίτης), the modern Zeyla, in Abyssinia, was a deep bay on the eastern coast of Africa, in lat. 11° N., SW. of the Straits of Bab-el-Man-deb. At the head of the bay was a town Avalites; and the inhabitants of the immediate district were called Avalitae. They were dependent upon the kingdom of Axum.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.