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HISTORY & CIVILIZATIONS · 16th C.

Harar, Ethiopia

Its walls were built in the 16th century. The French poet Arthur Rimbaud lived and traded here in the 1880s.

Harar, Ethiopia
Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The story, as a puzzle

The city that feeds hyenas.
This walled Muslim city in the Horn of Africa has dozens of mosques, and at night men outside its gates feed wild hyenas by hand. Pin it.

Where it is

Harar, Ethiopia · 9.3111, 42.1278

Source: UNESCO World Heritage Centre ↗

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