Tohen
Tohen
Tooxin طوهآن | |
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Settlement | |
.jpg) Tooxin | |
  Tohen Location in Somalia. | |
| Coordinates: 11°45′03″N 51°15′18″E / 11.75083°N 51.25500°E | |
| Country |  Somalia
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| Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) |
Tohen (Somali: Tooxin, Arabic: طوهآن) is a settlement in northeastern Somalia. It is in the autonomous Puntland region.
Tohen is on the northeastern coast of Somalia.[1] It faces the Guardafui Channel 6 miles south of the Gulf of Aden. The town of Bargal is 35 miles to the south.
Tohen and the neighboring lighthouse "Francesco Crispi" are depicted in Andrei Gusev's novel Once in Malindi (in Chapter 22).[2][3][4]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Douglas Collins, Tales from Africa, (East African Publishers: 1995), p.67.
- ↑ Review of "Once in Malindi" on the site of public fund "Union of writers of Moscow", 2021 (in Russian)
- ↑ "Once in Malindi" on Proza.ru, 2020 (in Russian)
- ↑ Андрей Гусев “Однажды в Малинди” Archived 2020-11-04 at the Wayback Machine, 2020 (in Russian)
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