Avalites, also known as Abalitês or Abalita/Abolite, alternatively rendered as Aualites, Aualita, or Avalita, was an ancient port city and trading hub situated in the Horn of Africa during Classical and Late Antiquity. Avalites was one of the principal seaports and commercial centres of Aethiopia alongside Adulis and Mosylon. It is widely believed that Avalites was located near the site that later became the coastal town of Zeila in today’s Awdal region, though another proposed location for Avalites is Djibouti. Avalites appears in several Greco-Roman geographical works, including the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, Pliny’s Natural History, Ptolemy’s Geography, and the Ethnica of Stephanus of Byzantium as well as the Periplus of the Outer Sea by Marcian of Heraclea.