[NHCOLL-L:4268] old Eritrean place name

[Doug Yanega]

After an hour searching all the printed and online gazetteers (and 
since the "Fuzzy Gazetteer" website seems to be defunct), I have to 
toss this one up for outside assistance:

We have a specimen labeled as being from Eritrea in 1930, and the 
place name begins with the letters "Qiqlas" (or possibly "Giglas" or 
"Qiglas"); the remaining letters are unclear, but the entire name 
appears to be "Qiqlasom". Note that while the borders of Eritrea are 
not now where they were in 1930, my inability to find the place name 
is not related to a change of country; I have searched the global 
place names gazetteers, and there are no place names anywhere in the 
world that begin with "Qiqlas", so it is either an extremely obscure 
place, or one that has an entirely different name now.

Thanks in advance for any help,
-- 

Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
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