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Periyapattinam

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Mar 30, 2026 07:52 PM History
A late medieval port town located in modern Tamil Nadu, India, on the Bay of Bengal. It seems to have flourished from the 13th century until the 17th, with Chinese and Islamic pottery from the first two centuries of that time being most abundant.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/532531493

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settlement, port, settlement-modern

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Tom Elliott, 'Periyapattinam: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/532531493> [accessed: 19 May 2026]

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