Historical place profile
Bakare
An ancient port settlement on the southwest coast of India, mentioned by the Periplus, Pliny, and Ptolemy. Casson (whence BAtlas) places it at modern Pirakkād/Purakkad in the state of Kerala.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:49890
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:49890
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 9.350990, 76.367920
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient port settlement on the southwest coast of India, mentioned by the Periplus, Pliny, and Ptolemy. Casson (whence BAtlas) places it at modern Pirakkād/Purakkad in the state of Kerala.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 5 D5 Bakare
Source and reuse
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Research path
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