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.