PERIMU´LA
PERIMU´LA (
Περίμουλα,,
Ptol. 7.2.5), the name of a town of some commercial importance on the W. side of the Sinus Magnus (or gulf of
Siam), on a tongue of land anciently called the Aurea Chersonesus, and now known by the name of
Malacca. Lassen places it in lat. 7° N.
In its immediate neighbourhood was a small bay or indentation of the coast, which was called the Sinus Perimulicus (
Περιμουλικὸς κόλπος).
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