Naoura
Information from the Periplus
Ancient Toponym: Naoura
Place Type: Port of trade
Route: Eastern route
Next on Route: Tyndis
Ancient Area: India
Periplus Chapter: PME, Ch. 53
Topographic info
Longitude 74.449703
Latitude 14.281472
Location Source: Pleiades
Modern Identification: Kannur
Modern Country: India
Passage from the Periplus
Beyond Kalliena other local ports of trade are: Semylla, Mandagora, Palaipatmai, Melizeigara, Byzantion, Toparon, Tyrannosboas. Then come the Sesekreienai Islands as they are called, the Isle of the Aigidioi, the Isle of the Kaineitoi near what is called the Peninsula, around which places there are pirates, and next White Island. Then come Naura and Tyndis, the first ports of trade of Limyrike, and, after these, Muziris and Nelkynda, which are now the active ones. (from the Casson translation)
Bibliography
Ancient source: Pliny the Elder, NH, 6.104
Bibliography
Ancient source: Ptolemy, 7.1.7
Bibliography: Renou, Louis. 1925. La géographie de Ptolémée: L’Inde. (vii, 1-4). Paris: É. Champion; Biblioteca nazionale marciana, p. 84.