Historic Site
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Tadjoura Historic Sultanate Quarter
Tadjoura, known affectionately as the White City (La Ville Blanche) due to its whitewashed coral buildings and seven historic mosques, is the oldest town in Djibouti and the historical seat of the Afar Sultanate of Tadjoura. Serving for centuries as a major trade terminus connecting the Ethiopian highlands to the Red Sea, the town held a dark role in the regional caravan and slave trade. Local oral history records that spirits of ancient sultans, fallen caravan merchants, and maritime ancestors guard the narrow alleyways of the old Sultanate Quarter.