Oxeia (promontory)

natural · 30 BC – 2099 AD

Ptolemy provides this name for a promontory of Sri Lanka, which BAtlDir identifies with the southern cape of Koddiyar Bay (i.e., the promontory at the tip of which the so-called Foul Point lighthouse now stands).

Coordinates

8.52535, 81.31872

Also known as

Oxeia Pr. (en), Oxeia Pr. (en), Oxeia akra (grc), Ὀξεία ἄκρα (grc)

Dating

attested

Sources

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

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