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Solely a city
I added a tag because the intro as well as the rest of the article seems to describe this topic in the rathewr narrow context of a port city. Other sources seem to give it a broader context, i.e.
[1],
[2] etc.
92.10.226.199 (
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22:20, 25 November 2019 (UTC)reply
The lead states pretty clearly that there was a market-city "of Spices" and a promontory "of Spices". The last paragraph says there was a land "of Spices".
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00:04, 26 November 2019 (UTC)reply
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There are three sources that refer to a place called the port/promontory/land of spices/aromatics (i.e., aromata). We cannot be sure the last (the Monumentum via Cosmas) is referring to the same place as the others (Periplus, Ptolemy). Both the port (emporion) and the promontory (akron) are equally aromaton ("of spices"). I don't think Aromata, used as a proper name, as scholars do, can be said to refer exclusively to either the port, the cape or a wider area. If there are other sources than the three mentioned in the article, I haven't found them. The article could perhaps make this clearer—in fact, I reverted your changes to the layout because I think they obscured precisely this. Certainly the lead could be reworked, but neither requires a change in title. I am not wedded to the current title (which was not my idea), but "Aromatic Coast" is not common enough next to Aromata.
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