Menouthias Islands

• The Menouthias Islands are mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (first century BCE).
• They probably refer to the Zanzibar Archipelago of islands opposite Azania, consisting of Pemba Island and Unguja Island, known as Zanzibar, along with other smaller islands.

Description

• The Periplus describes Rhapta as a port two days south of the Menouthias Islands. Rhapta may have been Dar es Salaam.
• Trade has been conducted between Zanzibar and Mesopotamia and India since c. 2,000 BCE.

Zanzibar may have been the Menouthias Islands