Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography/Argyre

​A′RGYRE (Ἀργυρῆ μητρόπολις), the capital of the large island of Jabadiu, which Ptolemy places S. of the Aurea Chersonesus (Malay Peninsula), supposed by some to be Sumatra, by others Java. (Ptol. vii. 2. § 29, viii. 27. § 10.) [ P. S. ]

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