• Anuradhapura East electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between July 1977 and February 1989. The district was named after the town...
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    Yakalla Anuradhapura East Electoral District Anuradhapura West Electoral District Horowpothana Electoral District Kalawewa Electoral District Kekirawa...
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    The Anuradhapura East Polling Division is a Polling Division in the Anuradhapura Electoral District, in the North Central Province, Sri Lanka. The winner...
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  • Anuradhapura electoral district is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district...
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    conjuncts instead of Indic text. The Anuradhapura kingdom (Sinhala: අනුරාධපුර රාජධානිය, translit: Anurādhapura Rājadhāniya, Tamil: அனுராதபுர இராச்சியம்)...
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    The Anuradhapura period was a period in the history of Sri Lanka of the Anuradhapura Kingdom from 377 BCE to 1017 CE. The period begins when Pandukabhaya...
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    members. Kurunegala District is bounded by six districts, to the north the Anuradhapura District, the east by the Matale and Kandy Districts, south by the Gampaha...
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    major trading hub, it was already known to both East Asians and Europeans as long ago as the Anuradhapura period. During a period of great political crisis...
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    coordination of elections in the district. The country was first divided into several administrative units during the Anuradhapura Kingdom. The kingdom was divided...
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    councils. In the Kingdom of Anuradhapura, Rajarata was the personal domain of the King. It was further divided in to four districts (Desa): Dakkina, Pachhima...
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    earliest ancestors of the Sinhalese. The first Sri Lankan ruler of the Anuradhapura Kingdom, Pandukabhaya, is recorded for the 4th century BCE. Buddhism...
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    Mahāvaṃsa (category Anuradhapura period)
    kept historical chronicle of Sri Lanka until the period of Mahasena of Anuradhapura. It was written in the style of an epic poem written in the Pali language...
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    The districts are further divided into administrative sub-units known as divisional secretariats. They were originally based on the feudal counties, the...
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    country was first divided into several administrative units during the Anuradhapura Kingdom. The kingdom was divided into three provinces; Rajarata, Ruhuna...
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    there were four changes to number of seats allocated to each electoral district. Anuradhapura and Gampaha gained one seat each while Colombo and Kurunegala...
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    Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and early Iron Age of the country until the Pre Anuradhapura period in 543 BC. There is evidence of Paleolithic (Homo erectus) people...
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    noted during the reigns of Pandukabhaya of Anuradhapura, Maha Naga of Anuradhapura and Manavanna of Anuradhapura until the publication of The Life of Alexander...
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    crossings of the Mahaveli River towards Anuradhapura.[citation needed] 3 years after restoring Anuradhapura, Vijayabahu prepared to fight a possible...
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  • Kandy Sigiriya Anuradhapura Galle Polonnaruwa Dambulla cave temple Sinharaja Knuckles Mountain Range Peak Wilderness Horton Plains The United Nations Educational...
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    the second longest river in Sri Lanka and runs through Mannar and Anuradhapura districts. Mannar has artesian springs and aquifers. These water supply comes...
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    7 March 2011 Jaffna District MP S. Shritharan was travelling in a van on the A12 highway near Nochchiyagama, Anuradhapura District when three men standing...
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    Dīpavaṃsa (category Anuradhapura period)
    Men". Dhatusena of Anuradhapura (5th century) had ordered the Dipavamsa be recited at the Mahinda festival held annually in Anuradhapura. The Dipavamsa refers...
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    Africanistes. 33 (1): 7–46. doi:10.3406/jafr.1963.1365. "The first king of Anuradhapura". Funday Times. Sunday Times. Retrieved 12 December 2011. Sasanian Iran...
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    Kandyan kingdom, the sculpture art was considered less impressive than the Anuradhapura and Polonnaruva periods. This is especially evident in the moonstones...
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    representing the Sri Lankan Tamils, contested in the five electoral districts in the north and east and was aiming to win 20 seats. The JVP, which had contested...
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    at Colombo and begun to construct a fort known as Santa Bárbara. To the east, the client kingdom of Kandy was by this time operating with a considerable...
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    an An-26 chartered from Ukrainian company Avialinii AAR crashed near Anuradhapura Airport while carrying Sri Lanka Army troops, killing all 40 on board...
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    main productions and staple foods in Sri Lanka. It cultivates in all districts of Sri Lanka during two monsoon seasons. It is estimated that about 708...
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    into five geographic provinces. The districts of Jaffna, Mannar, Nuvarakalaviya (present day Anuradhapura District) and Vanni formed the new Northern Province...
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    Dutch Ceylon (category Former trading posts of the Dutch East India Company)
    இலங்கை) was a governorate established in present-day Sri Lanka by the Dutch East India Company. Although the Dutch managed to capture most of the coastal...
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