city
Barygaza (Bharuch)
Bharuch, Gujarat, India · India & Indian Ocean
21.701, 72.983
Route context. The port is on the sea route. No direct Christian evidence here was found before 1100.
Attested. The port is attested. No direct Christian evidence from Barygaza before 1100 was found; the record is trade-route context only.
Barygaza on the Narmada estuary was the main port of north-west India in the Roman trade described by the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. It is included as the sea gateway to the Indo-Parthian north-west, where the Acts of Thomas set the apostle's mission.
Source stance: neutral. Greek geographical text (Periplus).
People and groups named here
- Periplus author (1st century)
Sources
- Pleiades place 59737: Barygaza
Pleiades Gazetteer (ISAW, NYU). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Bharuch (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
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