Barbarikon
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Barbarikon (Βαρβαρικόν in greek) was the name of a sea port near the modern-day city of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, important in the Hellenistic era in Indian Ocean trade. It comes from the Greek word of the term (also in latin Barbaricum), 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.
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