Megisba Stagnum
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 13, 2025 03:10 PM
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History
Pliny the Elder describes the "Megisba Stagnum" as an inland marsh or lake of Sri Lanka that has a circumference of 375 Roman miles. He says that from this wetland once flowed two rivers: one called Palaesimundus and the other called Cydara.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50127
8.24843739824, 80.4903629456
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (30 BC - AD 300)
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- stagnum Megisba (Megisba Stagnum: Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- None
- Cydara (river) connection Megisba Stagnum (unspecified date range)
- Less than certain: Nachchaduwa Tank succeeds Megisba Stagnum (unspecified date range)
wetland (swamp, marsh, or bog), lake
- Evidence:
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 5 inset Megisba Stagnum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: source of R. Cydara (Arevi-ār) SRI
M.U. Erdosy, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Megisba Stagnum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50127> [accessed: 08 May 2026]
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