Kayal

settlement · 1300 AD – 2099 AD

A medieval port city on the Bay of Bengal that seems to have replaced ancient Korkai as landscape change modified the course of the Tamiraparani river and the coastline at its delta.

Coordinates

8.66967, 78.09331

Also known as

Bawal (fa), Cail (la), Cail (la), Kabil (fa), Kabilbatan, Kabilpatan (fa), Kayalpattinam (en), Palayakayal (en)

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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