Cottiara
Κοττιάρα
Cottiara (Κοττιάρα, Ptol. 7.1.9), the chief city, according to Ptolemy, of the Aei, a tribe who occupied the lower part of the Peninsula of Hindostan. It is probably the same place which is mentioned by Pliny (6.23. 26) under the names of Cottona or Cottonara, and from which the best pepper was obtained, according to the author of the Periplus (p. 32). It has been supposed by some to be represented now by Cochin, Calicat, or Travancore; on the whole, Cochin is probably the most likely.
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.