Contacossyla
Κοντακόσσυλα
Contacossyla (Κοντακόσσυλα, Ptol. 7.1 § 15), a place called by Ptolemy an emporium in the country of Maesolia or Masalia, in the S. of India. It has been conjectured, with good reason, to be the same as the modern Masulipatam.
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.