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Ancient port city Poompuhar
March 26 , 2019
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- The Department of Remote Sensing, Bharathidasan University will conduct a research project to trace the history of the ancient port city Poompuhar.
- This program is funded by Department of Science and Technology (DST).
- Cauvery Poompattinam or Poompuhar was an ancient port city established by the Chola dynasty at the mouth of the Cauvery during Sangam period.
- It had trade links with Asian, Arabian and Mediterranean countries.
- There are elaborate narrations in the Sangam and post-Sangam literature such as Silapathigaram and Manimekalai about Poompuhar.
- But around AD 1100, it seems to have become defunct all of a sudden.
- This research program aims to bring out the socio-cultural evolution of the ancient Tamils in this country and the history of Poompuhar as well.
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