Nagadiba

Historical description

Ptolemy records a city and island called "Nagadiba" and also provides the ethnic name "Nagadiboi". One strand of twentieth century western scholarship, reflected in BAtlas, tentatively placed this site on the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka in the vicinity of modern Trincomalee (see also Emmanuel 2000). Another scholarly tradition, most recently repeated in Ashire 2012, identifies the Ptolemaic Nagadiba with the island and settlement hosting what is now known as the Nagadeepa/Nainadhivu Buddhist shrine off the northern peninsula of Jaffna.

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 inset Nagadiba

Source and reuse

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Research path

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