Bayul

Baylul is a small port on the Afar coast of the Red Sea, opposite Mocha in Yemen. In the early seventeenth century Emperor Susenyos favored it as a landing place for visitors to Ethiopia, offering a route that avoided Ottoman-held Massawa. The Portuguese Jesuit Jerónimo Lobo passed through in 1625 and described a small settlement before crossing the Danakil country toward the highlands.