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347: 36: 365:"This river has seven mouths, very shallow and marshy, so that they are not navigable, except the one in the middle; at which by the shore, is the market-town, Barbaricum. Before it there lies a small island, and inland behind it is the metropolis of 382:"The ships lie at anchor at Barbaricum, but all their cargoes are carried up to the metropolis by the river, to the King. There are imported into this market a great deal of thin clothing, and a little spurious; figured 446:. And sailors set out thither with the Indian Etesian winds, about the, month of July, that is Epiphi: it is more dangerous then, but through these winds the voyage is more direct, and sooner completed." 594: 589: 254: 599: 604: 207: 197: 502: 512: 247: 172: 471: 358: 227: 217: 584: 240: 187: 528:
Wendrich, W. Z.; R. S. Tomber; S. E. Sidebotham; J. A. Harrell; R. T. J. Cappers; R.S. Bagnall (2003).
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Intercourse Between India and the Western World: From the Earliest Times of the Fall of Rome
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trade. The port is considered one of the premiere ports regarding the interaction between
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Former name of a sea port near the modern-day city of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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Its principal function beyond supplying its immediate hinterland was as a
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plate, and a little wine. On the other hand there are exported
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princes who are constantly driving each other out."
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Index

History of Karachi

Mulri Hills
Allahdino
Pir Shah Jurio
Krokola
Minnagara
Barbarikon
Debal
Banbhore
Islamic period
Muhammad bin Qasim
Samma dynasty
Kalhora dynasty
Talpur dynasty
British period
Sind Division
Sind Province
Independent Pakistan
Federal Capital Territory
Sindh Province
1972 labour unrest
Demographics
Violence
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Ancient Greek
sea port
Karachi

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