Annius Plocamus
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Annius Plocamus
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Annius Plocamus was a Roman tax collector from the Mediterranean, who facilitated direct trade and the first contacts between the Roman Empire and Ancient Sri Lanka. The Romans had already heard about the island of Sri Lanka, which the Greeks had described under the name of Taprobane. However, according to Pliny, as described in his Natural History, it was during the reign of the Emperor Claudius that the two civilizations first met. A freedman of Annius Plocamus having farmed the customs of the
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2012-06-19T17:30:51Z
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2024-09-06T19:55:20Z
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