Kulasekharapatnam
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 131 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5142-0836-4
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kulasekarapatnam (Kulasekharapattinam, Tamil – ?????????????????) is a town in the Tuticorin district (formerly Tinnelvelly or Tirunelveli of Tamil Nadu, India. Kulasekharapatnam is referred to in Marco Polo's travel diaries dating to 1250 AD. Kulasekharapatnam the name is derived from pandyan ruler Maravarman Kulasekara Pandyan I. Kulasekharapatnam was an ancient port dating to the 1st centuries of the Christian era and was contemporaneous to the existence of Kollam, Cheran Port, another Pandyan port. Kollam served the Pandyas on the west coast while Kulasekharapatnam served them on the east coast connecting them to Ceylon and the pearl fisheries in the Gulf of Mannar facing the Tirunelveli Coast. Kulasekharapatnam has Muslim settlements.The ancient port had connections with Ceylon, Egypt, Rome and Greece. The other ports on the Coromandel Coast were Kaveripumpattinam (Poompuhar) and Arikamedu (near Pondicherry). On the west coast the...