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Jean-François Breton, « Considérations sur les irrigations d'Adulis », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.d48c2a...
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The historiographical tradition, based mainly on the Périple de la mer Erythrée and on the description of Cosmas Indicopleustès, constantly emphasises that Adulis owes its fortune to its port, thus highlighting its major role as an emporium in maritime trade in the southern part of the Red Sea, at least from the beginning of our era 399.However, the very reasons for its location in the vast regional area defined by the western slopes of the Tigray mountains are only implicitly mentioned. For some authors, it is as if Adulis, a simple commercial port of call, home to only a few merchants and craftsmen, could not be linked to any geographical or hydrogeological considerations. Recent studies tend to show that Adulis, a town of some importance, owed its survival and even its importance to the development of its territory, whether nearby or a little further away. The aim of our study is to situate Adulis within a network of rivers that are swollen by monsoon rains in the summer and which concentrate in this very spot, and also to find out how the town developed.
