 Golden Chersonese

The Golden Chersonese or Golden Khersonese (, "Chrysḗ Chersónēsos"; ), meaning the Golden Peninsula, was the name used for the Malay Peninsula by Greek and Roman geographers in classical antiquity, most famously in Claudius Ptolemy's 2nd-century "Geography".The earliest references to a fabulous land of gold that could be interpreted as places in South East Asia may be found in Indian literature.