Barbarikon
Barbarikon was the name of a sea port near the modern-day city of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, important in the ancient era of the subcontinent in Indian Ocean trade. The port is considered one of the premere ports regarding the interaction between ancient India with the Middle East and Mediterranean world. It comes from the Greek word of the term, designating areas outside the civilization and/or the Roman Empire and the Greek world.
Barbarikon is mentioned briefly in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea:
Its principal function beyond supplying its immediate hinterland was as a transshipment port for supplies of Persian turquoise and Afghan lapis lazuli, to be carried overland to Egypt.
