Orientale Mare/Gangeticus Sinus/Eous Oceanus
a Pleiades
place
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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
Jul 19, 2024 02:45 PM
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History
Ancient Greek and Roman sources refer to the Bay of Bengal, which forms the northeastern portion of the Indian Ocean, by these names. It was also sometimes construed as an ocean entirely surrounding Asia.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50178
15.0000001, 89.9999999
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Bay of Bengal (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Eous oceanus (Eous Oceanus: Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Gangeticus Sinus (unspecified date range)
- Orientale Mare (330 BC - AD 640)
- Orientale Mare/Gangeticus Sinus/Eous Oceanus connection Indicum Mare (unspecified date range)
- Ganges (river in Sri Lanka) flows into Orientale Mare/Gangeticus Sinus/Eous Oceanus (unspecified date range)
- Kamberichon Stoma flows into Orientale Mare/Gangeticus Sinus/Eous Oceanus (30 BC - AD 300)
water, open
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 5 F3 Orientale Mare/Gangeticus Sinus/Eous Oceanus
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Bay of Bengal; also entire ocean surrounding Asia
M.U. Erdosy, Sean Gillies, Perry Scalfano, R. Talbert, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Orientale Mare/Gangeticus Sinus/Eous Oceanus: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/50178> [accessed: 30 March 2025]
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