The Crisis of the Sixteenth Century was the later part of the Transitional period of Sri Lanka, that began with the decline of the Kingdom of Kotte, with...
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the King of Kotte. Another section is called "Hewapanne" or soldiers. During the period of the Crisis of the Sixteenth Century and the arrival of the...
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establishment of the Kingdom of Tambapanni in the 6th century BCE by the earliest ancestors of the Sinhalese. The first Sri Lankan ruler of the Anuradhapura Kingdom...
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by the succession of capitals that followed the fall of the Polonnaruwa Kingdom and the creation of the Jaffna kingdom and Crisis of the Sixteenth Century...
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Anurādhapura, 437 BC–7th century AD, 7th century–667, 683–772, 777–797, 801–833, 853–1029 Sigiriya, 473–491 (During the reign of Kassapa I (473–491)) Polonnaruwa...
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Vijayabā Kollaya (category Crisis of the Sixteenth Century)
The Vijayabā Kollaya (Sack of Vijayabahu) took place in the Kingdom of Kotte in 1521. The three sons of the reigning king Vijayabahu VI mutinied against...
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Nikapitiye Bandara was the king of Sitawaka in 1593. After the death of King Rajasuriya, Veediya Bandara's queen Samudra devi, gave the kingship to her son...
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Sri Lanka Kaffirs (category People of African descent)
descended from 16th-century Portuguese traders and Bantu slaves who were brought by them to work as labourers and soldiers to fight against the Sinhala kings...
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Raigama Bandara (redirect from Principality of Raigama)
miscommunication. The fleeing of the family was followed by the downfall of the ruler himself. The only descendants of the king still live bearing the name of "Mohotti"...
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Dominicus Corea (category Crisis of the Sixteenth Century)
each on an elephant by the side.' The 'Mahavamsa', the recorded chronicles of Sri Lankan history (starting from the 3rd century BCE), refers to Edirille...
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