Nagadiba

natural · 30 BC – 2099 AD · location approximate

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.

Coordinates

9.08982, 80.50192

Also known as

Nagadiba (Nesos) (grc), Nagadiba polis (grc), Nagadiboi (grc), Ναγαδίβα (Νῆσος) (grc), Ναγαδίβα πόλις (grc), Ναγαδίβοι (grc)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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