Historical place profile

Banabasi

A settlement in south India that has served as a regional administrative and sacred center since at least the beginning of the first millennium CE.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:49895
Catalogue ID
pleiades:49895
Place type
settlement
Coordinates
14.535519, 75.012420
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

A settlement in south India that has served as a regional administrative and sacred center since at least the beginning of the first millennium CE.

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 D4 Banabasi

Source and reuse

This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.

Research path

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