In earlier times Jaffna was known as “Yaalpaanam”. Geographically, the peninsula of Jaffna together with its seven little islands, crowns the island of Sri Lanka. Tamils originated mainly from different parts of southern India. In ancient times, the entire island (Ilankai or Lanka) certainly was    Read more...

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dominated by the principal Dravidian dynasties, known as Chera, Chola, Pandya and Pallava and later by Vijayanagara. All these Kingdoms had at their prevailing times, collectively spanned and dominated the entire South Indian region. In the history of Jaffna, the Thirteenth century was the most significant, an independent Tamil Kingdom was established in this period in (Ilankai) Sri Lanka. The reign of the Arya Chakravarties Dynasty (Emperors) had commenced. The historical evidence of the existence of the Kingdom of Jaffna over four centuries from the 13th to the 16th century.

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