Megisba Stagnum

natural · 30 BC – 300 AD

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.

Coordinates
10.00000, 80.00000
Also known as
stagnum Megisba (la)
Dating
attested

Sources

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