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Jaffna (tamilul: யாழ்ப்பாணம், szingalézül: යාපනය, átírásban: Jápanaja) város Srí Lanka északi részén, az Északi (North ...
Jaffna is approximately six miles (9.7 kilometres) from Kandarodai which served as an emporium in the Jaffna peninsula from classical antiquity. Jaffna's suburb Nallur served as the capital of the four-century-long medieval Tamil Jaffna Kingdom. Prior to the Sri Lankan Civil War, it was Sri Lanka's second most populous city after Colombo. The ...
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Jaffna város Srí Lanka északi részén, az Északi tartomány fővárosa. Az indiai parttól kevesebb mint 70 km-re, egy félszigeten fekszik. Lakossága 88 ezer fő volt 2012-ben.
Sri Lanka. Jaffna, historical monarchy in northern Sri Lanka (Ceylon), populated largely by Tamil-speaking people of South Indian origin. It existed—with occasional interruptions—from the early 14th to the early 17th century. Almost from the beginning of Sri Lanka’s recorded history, there had been sporadic invasions by peoples from South ...
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Founding. The origin of the Jaffna kingdom is obscure and still the subject of controversy among historians. Among mainstream historians, such as K. M. de Silva, S. Pathmanathan and Karthigesu Indrapala, the widely accepted view is that the kingdom of the Aryacakravarti dynasty in Jaffna began in 1215 with the invasion of a previously unknown chieftain called Magha, who claimed to be from ...
Philippe Fabry, The Essential guide for Jaffna and its region, with Lisa Fabry-Bewley, Alexandra Fabry and Emmanuel Fabry, Negombo, Viator Publications, 2003, 159 p., ISBN 955-8736-01-5; External links. Jaffna District Archived 2018-09-19 at the Wayback Machine; A Mission in Jaffna & the Memories of war-torn Jaffna
