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Piram

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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or Perim, an island in the Gulf of Cambay, forming part of Ahmadabad district, Bombay. Formerly notorious as the stronghold of a pirate chieftain, it has attained fame among palaeontologists for the large quantity of fossil remains discovered here in 1836, similar to the better-known Siwalik fauna.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Piram'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​p/piram.html. 1910.
 
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