Nairobi–Mombasa Road the west towards the east: Nairobi–Mombasa Road The Nairobi–Mombasa Road, also Mombasa–Nairobi Road or A109 Road (Kenya) is the main road between Nairobi, Kenya's capital and largest city and Mombasa, the country's largest port city. The road is a component of the Northern Corridor. The road starts in the city of Nairobi, at the confluence of "Langata Road", "Uhuru Highway" and "Lusaka Road", immediately west of "DHL House". It continues in a general southeasterly direction, through seven Kenya Counties to end in the city of Mombasa at the confluence of "Digo Road", "Langoni Road" and "Abdel Nasser Road", a total
Mombasa was renamed as Mvita (in Swahili) or Manbasa (Arabic). Portugal attacked the city again in 1528. In 1585 a joint military expedition between the Somalis of Ajuran Empire and the Turks of Ottoman Empire led by Emir 'Ali Bey successfully liberated Mombasa and other coastal cities in Southeast Africa from the Portuguese colonizers. The Portuguese landlords; only Malindi remained loyal to Portugal. The Zimba overcame the towns of Sena and Tete on the Zambezi, and in 1587 they took Kilwa, killing 3,000 people. At Mombasa the Zimba slaughtered the Muslim inhabitants, but they were halted at Malindi by the Bantu-speaking