Muziris
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- Muziris is also a genus of jumping spiders.
Muziris is a lost port city in the southern Indian state of Kerala, locally known as Vanchi, which was a major center of trade, especially pepper and other spices, with the Roman Empire from the 1st or 2nd century BCE to probably as late as 6th century CE. Large hoards of coins and innumerable shards of amphorae found in the town of Pattanam, have elicited recent archeological interest as a probable location of this mythical port city.
See also Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.
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