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This article has been extracted from <br/>

THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908.<br/>

OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.
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''Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value. ''

=Sofale (Safale)=

Village in the Mahim taluka of Thana District, 
Bombay, situated in 19° 34' N. and 72° 50' E., on the Bombay, 
Baroda, and Central India Railway, 8 miles south-east of Mahim town. 
Population (1901), 769. The fact that Abul Fida (1320) mentions a 
Sefareh in India and a Sefareh in Africa as ports of inter-comniu- 
nication seems to show that Sofale was the Konkan terminus of the 
trade with the African coast that probably reached back to prehistoric 
times.