Historical place profile
Kottapatnam
A modern village near the coast north from Chennai where an archaeologically attested seaport settlement flourished from the 3rd century BCE until the 15th century CE as attested by remnants of Chinese and Thai pottery -- as well as a Chinese coin. It is probably to be identified with Ptolemy's "Kottis".
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:50081
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:50081
- Place type
- port, settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 14.116014, 80.119919
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A modern village near the coast north from Chennai where an archaeologically attested seaport settlement flourished from the 3rd century BCE until the 15th century CE as attested by remnants of Chinese and Thai pottery -- as well as a Chinese coin. It is probably to be identified with Ptolemy's "Kottis".
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 Kottis
Source and reuse
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Research path
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