Maydh

Maydh is a port on the northern Somali coast, sheltered between the Gulf of Aden and the mountains of Sanaag. It is associated with Sheikh Isaaq, revered in tradition as an ancestor of the Isaaq clan family, whose tomb stands near the shore. The port appears in the account of the fifteenth-century navigator Ibn Majid and in sixteenth-century Portuguese maps and chronicles, reflecting its place among the coastal towns of the Horn.