Historical place profile
Periyapattinam
A late medieval port town located in modern Tamil Nadu, India, on the Bay of Bengal. It seems to have flourished from the 13th century until the 17th, with Chinese and Islamic pottery from the first two centuries of that time being most abundant.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:532531493
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:532531493
- Place type
- port, settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 9.272630, 78.902320
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A late medieval port town located in modern Tamil Nadu, India, on the Bay of Bengal. It seems to have flourished from the 13th century until the 17th, with Chinese and Islamic pottery from the first two centuries of that time being most abundant.
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: Pleiades
Source and reuse
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Research path
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