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Simylla

Σιμύλλα

Simylla (Σιμύλλα, Ptol. 7.1.6), a commercial entrepôt on the western coast of Hindostan, in the district called Ἀριακὰ Σαδινῶν. It is noticed in the Periplus by the name of Σήμυλλα, and was probably at or near Bassein, a little N. of Bombay.

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.