Kanchipuram
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Tom Elliott
Creators: Tom Elliott
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 31, 2026 09:48 PM
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History
An ancient city of India, founded in the 4th century BCE and frequently mentioned in literature thereafter, is still a center of religious life and architecture, as well as the textile industry.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/839190400
12.836393, 79.7053304
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location: modern Kanchipuram (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- காஞ்சிபுரம் (Kanchipuram: Tamil, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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settlement, settlement-modern
Pleiades
Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Kanchipuram: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/839190400> [accessed: 19 May 2026]
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