Author: Oyeah, Zac
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the ancient Greek scholar Ptolemy, in his opus on geography from c. 140 CE, in which he catalogued the great cities of the world, wrote that ‘to the west of the river Namados is a mart of commerce, the city of Barygaza’.
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Barygaza was, along with Muziris in Kerala, one of the two main western ports of India, and as such it attracted a large number of foreigners, making it perhaps one of the most cosmopolitan cities of Asia.