Nicama
Νίκαμα
Nicama (Νίκαμα), a place on the SW. coast of India, called a metropolis by Ptolemy (7.1.12). It was in the district of the Bati, within the territory of king Pandion. It was very probably on the site of the present Cottopatam.
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.