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Argyre

Ἀργυρῆ μητρόπολις

Argyre (Ἀργυρῆ μητρόπολις), the capital of the large island of Jabadin, which Ptolemy places S. of the Aurea Chersonesus (Malay Peninsula), supposed by some to be Sumatra, by others Java. (Ptol. 7.2.29, 8.27.10.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.