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2. 1998 Temple of the Tooth attack - Wikipedia

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   1998 Temple of the Tooth attack. /  7.29389°N 80.63861°E  / 7.29389; 80.63861. The 1998 Temple of the Tooth attack was an attack on the Temple of the Tooth Relic, located in Kandy, Sri Lanka. The shrine, which is considered to be important to the Buddhists in Sri Lanka, houses the relic of the tooth of the Buddha, and is also a UNESCO ...

3. Temple of the Tooth - Wikipedia

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   Temple of the Tooth. /  7.29389°N 80.63861°E  / 7.29389; 80.63861. Sri Dalada Maligawa[ a] ( Sinhala: ශ්‍රී දළදා මාළිගාව ), commonly known in English as the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, is a Buddhist temple in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is located in the Royal Palace Complex of the former Kingdom of Kandy ...

4. Kandyan–Dutch war (1764–1766) - Wikipedia

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   The Dutch-Kandy War of 1764-1766 marked a military conflict between the Dutch East India Company and the Kingdom of Kandy, culminating in the occupation of Kandy by Dutch forces and the subsequent transfer of the entire coastal territory of Sri Lanka to Dutch control.

5. Kandy - Wikipedia

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   Kandy. /  7.29639°N 80.63500°E  / 7.29639; 80.63500. Kandy ( Sinhala: මහනුවර Mahanuwara, pronounced ⓘ [mahanuʋərə]; Tamil: கண்டி Kandy, pronounced ⓘ [ˈkaɳɖi]) is a major city in located in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. It was the last capital of the Sinhalese monarchy from 1469 to 1818, under the ...

6. Sigiriya - Wikipedia

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   According to Paranavithana, during this period over 75 ships carrying Murundi soldiers from Mangalore arrived in Sri Lanka and landed in Chilaw to protect King Dathusena, most of them Christians. King Dathusena's daughter was married to Migara, a Christian and the commander of the Singhalese army. [7] [8]

7. Portuguese Ceylon - Wikipedia

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   Channa Wicremasekera, Kandy at War. Sri Lanka: Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2004. ISBN 955-8095-52-4; Michael Roberts, Sinhala Consciousness in the Kandyan Period. Sri Lanka: Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2004. ISBN 955-8095-31-1, Abeysinghe, Tikiri (2005). Jaffna under the Portuguese. Colombo: Stamford Lake. p. 66. ISBN 955-1131-70-1. Kunarasa, K ...