They somehow suspected that the king of Jaffna had some connection with the king of Kandy. Meanwhile as Sitawaka Rajasinghe had no son to succeed him, the kingdom had no king for sometime. Trouble ...

He tried to chase the Portuguese from his kingdom. He besieged Mannar ... Then they set forth with a huge army, to punish the King of Jaffna. They reached Colombu-thurai, disbanded the army of the ...

When the Portuguese arrived in 1505, there were three kingdoms -- Kotte, Kandy and Jaffna. The Jaffna kingdom was last ruled by Ariyachakrawaththi Sangilian, a Hindu king. He vehemently opposed the ...

Our next stop after Jaffna was the heart of the Cultural Triangle of Sri Lanka. The ancient city of Anuradhapura was the ...