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The Royal Palace of Kandy (Sinhala: කන්ද උඩරට මාලිගාව) is a historical palace complex located in the city of Kandy, Sri Lanka, and was the official residence of the kings of the Kingdom of Kandy before the British colonization in 1815. The palace complex is a remarkable example of traditional Kandyan architecture ...
An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon is a book written by the English trader and sailor Robert Knox in 1681. It describes his experiences some years earlier in the Kingdom of Kandy, on the island today known as Sri Lanka. It provides one of the most important contemporary accounts of 17th century Sri Lankan life.
Kumara Krishnappa killed the then reigning Kandy king, sent the late king's wife and children to Anuradhapura and placed his own brother-in-law Vijaya Gopala Naidu as his viceroy in Kandy. [17] The last king of the Kandy Mahanuwara dynasty, Narendra Sinha, died in 1739 without an offspring from his queen. His queen was a Madurai Nayak princess.
There were twelve signatories to the Kandyan Convention signed in the following languages: four signed in Tamil, three, in Tamil and Sinhalese and four, in Sinhalese. This act effectively ended the Sovereignty of the Kandy Nayakar Dynasty. [4] The king was captured by the British and send to Madurai as a prisoner.
The Nayakkar Dynasty, [2] which began with Sri Vijaya Rajasinha, was seen as a great religious revival by the people, but the last king of this dynasty, Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe's reign witnessed the gradual decline of the kingdom, leading to the abolition of the king's position in the kingdom in 1815. This resulted in the absorption of the ...
Kalhora Dynasty (1701-1783) Kingdom of Sitawaka (1521–1594) Johor Sultanate (1528–1855) Kingdom of Middag (17th century) Kingdom of Kandy (1581–1815) Kingdom of Tungning (1662–1683) Qing Dynasty (1644–1912) Kingdom of Nepal (1768–2008) Kingdom of Maynila (1500s–1571) Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti (1762–1800) Thonburi Kingdom (1767 ...
Vimaladharmasuriya I, known as Konappu Banḍāra or Galagoda Wimaladharmasurya Bandara before his ascension, was the son of a distinguished aristocrat, from Hatara kōrale (‘four districts’) (roughly equivalent to today’s Kegalla District), Galagoda Weerasundara Bandara.
The last ruling dynasty of Kandy was the Nayaks. Kandy stayed independent until the early 19th century. The Kandyan Convention signed between the British and the Kandyan chiefs in 1815. In the Second Kandyan War, the British launched an invasion that met no resistance and reached the city on 10 February 1815.