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Qalhat(Travellers | Cities | Routes | Trade
Goods | Themes) Nicolò de' Conti said the following about Qalhat: Sailing through this gulf for the space of five days he came to the port of Colcus*, and afterwards to Ormuz (which is a small island in the said gulf), distant from the mainland twelve miles. Leaving this island and turning towards India for the space of one hundred miles, he arrived at the city of Calacatia, a very noble emporium of the Persians. - Nicolò de' Conti, translated in Major, R. H. India in the Fifteenth Century: Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India (London: Hakluyt Society, 1857), p. 5. *Colcus is probably Bandar ‘Abbas; the form occurs in Poggio in the accusative, Colcum. Ramusio gives the name as Calcum. Calacatia is Qalhat. PL.
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