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] during classical antiquity Azania was mostly inhabited by Southern Cushitic peoples, whose groups would rule the area until the great Bantu Migration.^[5][6]

In 1933, G.W.B Huntingford proposed a theory of Azanian civilization existing in Kenya and northern Tanzania, between the Stone Age and Islamic period. It was supposed that these people were from Somalia where they eventually perished around the 14th to 15th-century.^[7]