Kalmunai
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 07, 2025 10:32 AM
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History
A modern settlement on the east coast of Sri Lanka (Ampara district, Eastern province). It was the reported findspot of a single Roman bronze coin.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50027
7.4131557, 81.8269327
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of modern Kalmunai (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Kalmunai connection Sri Lanka (unspecified date range)
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findspot, place of finding, find place, settlement-modern
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 5 inset Kalmunai
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kalmunai, SRI
M.U. Erdosy, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Kalmunai: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50027> [accessed: 18 June 2026]
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