Historical place profile
Dharanikota/Pitoura
Dharanikota is a modern village adjoining Amaravathi on the southern bank of the Krishna river in Andhra Pradesh. Ancient habitation, attested by pottery, and a series of wharfs and water management structures in various materials including brick and stone, indicate that trade and settlement activity began at the site as early as the second century BCE. The site has been identified with Ptolemy's Pitoura, which he identifies as a "metropolis".
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:50219
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:50219
- Place type
- port, settlement
- Coordinates
- 16.577650, 80.348371
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Dharanikota is a modern village adjoining Amaravathi on the southern bank of the Krishna river in Andhra Pradesh. Ancient habitation, attested by pottery, and a series of wharfs and water management structures in various materials including brick and stone, indicate that trade and settlement activity began at the site as early as the second century BCE. The site has been identified with Ptolemy's Pitoura, which he identifies as a "metropolis".
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 E3 Pitoura
Source and reuse
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Research path
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