Beilul

Province

Baylul ( Amharic and Tigrinya: በይሉል Bäylul, also Beylul or Beilul ) is a small port town on the Red Sea in the red sea region Debubawi region in Eritrea. It lies on the coast of the inhabited by Afar region.

Jerónimo Lobo visited Baylul 1625 and described it as a small town with some straw huts and no more than 50 residents. The way inland led by practically waterless country and was dangerous because of hostile tribes.

As Massawa was occupied by the Ottoman Empire, tried to open a new trade route to the Ethiopian Emperor Fasilides about Baylul. His choice fell on Baylul because this place was beyond the Ottoman sphere of influence and directly opposite the harbor Mocha in Yemen. In 1642 he sent a message of greetings to the Imam of Yemen Mohammed al - Mu'ayyad to win their support for this project. Since al - Mu'ayyad Mohammed al - Mutawakkil and his son Isma'il assumptions Fasilides was interested in a conversion to Islam, 1646, a Yemeni embassy was sent to Gondar. As the Yemenis Fasilides ' actual motives were clear, but their enthusiasm fell, and the project was abandoned.

Today Baylul is visited by Afar dealers and fishermen, and occasionally by Arabs and has far less importance than the nehegelegene port city of Assab.

Swell

• Richard Pankhurst: Baylūl, In: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.): Encyclopaedia aethiopica, Volume 1, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-447-04746-1.

• Location in Eritrea
• Debubawi red sea region
• Place in Africa