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Devipattinam

a Pleiades place resource

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A modern village located on the Bay of Bengal in Tamil Nadu, just north of the Rameswaram peninsula. Epigraphic and ceramic evidence indicate that the village's antecedent was a thriving locus of maritime trade from the 13th to the 17th centuries CE.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/465741478

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
9.47763, 78.89558

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Associated Modern Locations:
- GeoNames location: modern Devipattinam (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 30 meters.

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Geographic Names:
- தேவிபட்டினம் (Devipattinam: Tamil, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Mali-Fatan (Modern Persian, AD 1300 - AD 1399)
- Mali-Fitan (Modern Persian, AD 1300 - AD 1399)

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Devipattinam receives connections from:

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Place type:
settlement, port, settlement-modern

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Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Tom Elliott, 'Devipattinam: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/465741478> [accessed: 19 May 2026]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/465741478 |title=Places: 465741478 (Devipattinam) |author=Elliott, T. |accessdate=May 19, 2026 2:51 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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