Kaptallah
Encyclopedia
Kaptallah was an historic Somali
seafaring company
. It established the port city of Bandar Qassim in the early 19th century, and traded with Persia, India
and Arabia.
Somali people
Somalis are an ethnic group located in the Horn of Africa, also known as the Somali Peninsula. The overwhelming majority of Somalis speak the Somali language, which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family...
seafaring company
Company
A company is a form of business organization. It is an association or collection of individual real persons and/or other companies, who each provide some form of capital. This group has a common purpose or focus and an aim of gaining profits. This collection, group or association of persons can be...
. It established the port city of Bandar Qassim in the early 19th century, and traded with Persia, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
and Arabia.