Kottapatnam
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
Apr 02, 2026 09:57 AM
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History
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".
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50081
14.1160137, 80.1199192
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location: modern Kothapatnam (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Less than certain: Κοττίς (Kottis: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- కొత్తపట్నం (Kothapatnam: Telugu, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Kottapatnam (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Kottapattinam (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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settlement, port, settlement-modern
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 5 E3 Kottis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kottapattinam?
M.U. Erdosy, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Kottapatnam: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50081> [accessed: 17 May 2026]
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