Ghost Towns
Muziris
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🏛️ Ancient ruins

Muziris

Ghost town · India

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
10.150, 76.200
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Why it was abandoned

🏛️ Ancient ruins

Detected automatically from the text: ancient seaport and urban center

History

Muciṟi, also Muchiri, Classical Graeco-Roman toponym Muziris/Mouziris, was an ancient port and urban centre on the Malabar Coast, southern India. It was located near the mouth of the Periyar River in the Chera country of Tamilakam.

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