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History of Madurai : ウィキペディア英語版 | History of Madurai Madurai is a major city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Largest Urban areas )〕 It is the administrative headquarters of Madurai District and a popular Hindu pilgrimage centre. == Sangam period ==
Madurai is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Madurai Districts )〕 It was a flourishing city by the 1st millennium BC and served as the capital of the Pandyan Kingdom. Madurai features prominently in the 2nd century Tamil epic ''Silappadhikaram'' and the song ''Maturaikkāñci'', both of which gives a detailed description of the city, its life and people. Madurai finds mention in the works of Roman historians Pliny the Younger and Ptolemy〔"Ptolemy (2nd century ce), commenting on the brisk trading relations between ‘Modura’, the Greeks and the Romans, calls it ‘the Mediterranean emporium of the south’" (Madurai (2002). In Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend, Thames & Hudson. )〕 and those of the Greek geographer Strabo. It is also mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.
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