Nikon (Somalia)

This article is about the ancient port. For people with this name, see Nikon.

Nikon (alternatively spelled Nicon; Ancient Greek: Νίκων, romanized: Níkōn) was a proto-Somali ancient coastal emporium in the Horn of Africa. It was described in the 1st century CE Greco-Roman travelogue the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea as being situated in the vicinity of Port Dunford (Bur Gao) in the southern Jubaland region of present-day Somalia.^[1]

Ancient Nikon
Location	Somalia
City-state existed:	2nd century

See also

• Sarapion
• Maritime history of Somalia