Original Name:
Chinese Name:
不剌哇
Notes:
A polity recorded in the MSL in connection with the eunuch-led voyages to the Indian Ocean in the early 15th century. Mills (1970; 215) identifies it with Brava, a town located a little over 1 degree north of the Equator on the east coast of Africa in today's Somalia. For information on further Chinese sources relating to this polity, see Chen, Xie and Lu (1986; 109).