Nagadiba
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).
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Oct 07, 2025 10:32 AM
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History
Ptolemy records a city and island called "Nagadiba" and also provides the ethnic name "Nagadiboi". One strand of twentieth century western scholarship, reflected in BAtlas, tentatively placed this site on the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka in the vicinity of modern Trincomalee (see also Emmanuel 2000). Another scholarly tradition, most recently repeated in Ashire 2012, identifies the Ptolemaic Nagadiba with the island and settlement hosting what is now known as the Nagadeepa/Nainadhivu Buddhist shrine off the northern peninsula of Jaffna.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50150
9.0898182414, 80.5019161317
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Uncertain: OSM Location: modern Nagadeepa/Nainativu island (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Uncertain: OSM location of Trincomalee (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Ναγαδίβα (Νῆσος) (Nagadiba (Nesos): Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Ναγαδίβα πόλις (Nagadiba polis: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Ναγαδίβοι (Nagadiboi: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Nagadiba located on Sri Lanka (unspecified date range)
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island, settlement, settlement-modern
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 5 inset Nagadiba
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Trincomalee? SRI
M.U. Erdosy, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Nagadiba: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50150> [accessed: 12 December 2025]
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