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Portuguese arrived in Sri Lanka in 1505 and established trade relations with kingdom of Kotte.They erected a fortress in Colombo and garrisoned it. [citation needed]In 1521, King Vijayabahu VI's three sons mutinied against their father.
The history of Sri Lanka covers Sri Lanka and the history of the Indian subcontinent and its surrounding regions of South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean. Prehistoric Sri Lanka goes back 125,000 years and possibly even as far back as 500,000 years. [1] The earliest humans found in Sri Lanka date to Prehistoric times about 35,000 years ...
This is a timeline of Sri Lankan history, comprising important & territorial changes and political & economic events in Sri Lanka and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Sri Lanka .
6 Sri Lanka (1948–present) 7 See also. ... Outline of Sri Lanka; Timeline of Sri Lankan history This page was last edited on 8 March 2022, at 06:02 (UTC). ...
He built 1470 reservoirs – the highest number by any ruler in Sri Lanka's history – repaired 165 dams, 3910 canals, 163 major reservoirs, and 2376 mini-reservoirs. [17] His most famous construction is the Parakrama Samudra , the largest irrigation project of medieval Sri Lanka.
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The Portuguese arrived in Sri Lanka in 1505, initially as merchants for the lucrative spice trade. Sri Lanka's Crisis of the Sixteenth Century (1521–1597) began with the Vijayabā Kollaya, the partitioning of the Kingdom of Kotte between three brothers, who began a series of wars over the succession. Starting in 1527, the Portuguese began to ...
The Pre-Anuradhapura period of Sri Lankan history begins with the gradual onset of historical records in the final centuries of the prehistoric period and ending in 437 BC. . According to the Mahavamsa, the original inhabitants of Sri Lanka are the Yakshas and northern Naga tri