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Cossa

Κόσσα

Cossa (Κόσσα or Κῶα, Ptol. 7.1.65), a town in India, mentioned by Ptolemy as a place famous for the diamonds found there. It has been conjectured by Forbiger to be the present Cotta, on the river Zesul. [V]

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.