Mayadunne (Sinhala: මායාදුන්නේ) was the founder and ruler of Sitawaka from 1521 to 1581. A fierce opponent of the Portuguese, he devoted his life to oust...
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themselves—Mayadunne ruling from Sitawaka and Pararajasinha establishing the kingdom of Raigama. The kingdom of Kandy was effectively outside of the control of any...
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army of Kandy before it joined forces with Mayadunne.[citation needed] Afterwards, his army invaded and captured the Kingdom of Sitawaka as Mayadunne fled...
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Bhuvanaikabahu VII (redirect from Bhuvanekabahu VII of Sri Lanka)
queen Anula Kahatuda. He was born in 1468 and his brothers were Mayadunne of Sitawaka and Rayigam Bandara. After his father married a second time, his...
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Vijayabā Kollaya (category Crisis of the Sixteenth Century)
Kotte), Pararajasingha (later Raigam Bandara) and Mayadunne (later Mayadunne of Sitawaka). Queen Kiravella, whom the king married second, had a son named...
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Shantha Mayadunne (1951–2019), Sri Lankan chef Mayadunne of Sitawaka, founder and ruler of Sitawaka This page lists people with the surname Mayadunne. If...
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Mayadunne of Sitawaka (b. 1501) September 1 – Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534) September 16 – Peter Niers, notorious German bandit (date of birth...
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Sinhalese–Portuguese conflicts (redirect from Siege of Colombo)
themselves in the 'Spoiling of Vijayabahu'. Mayadunne received the Kingdom of Sitawaka, Pararajasingha was given the Principality of Raigama (taking the name...
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Veediya Bandara (category People of the Kingdom of Kotte)
of the Kotte army, in a series of relentless wars against King Mayadunne of Sitawaka and occasionally, against the Portuguese. Being impetuous by nature...
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deserted to Sitawaka. Mayadunne taking the initiative rallied his forces to invade the Kingdom of Kotte. The Sitawaka army consisted of 50,000 men in...
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the reign of Bhuvanaikabahu VII of Kotte (1521–1551). Prince Veediya Bandara led the battles against Portuguese and King Mayadunne of Sitawaka with the...
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Raigama Bandara (redirect from Principality of Raigama)
in 1538, his brother Mayadunne, ruler of Sitawaka, annexed the kingdom of Raigam. Hancock, James. "European Discovery & Conquest of Sri Lanka". World History...
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unsuccessful siege of Kotte from 1557 to 1558 by Mayadunne, the Portuguese laid plans to invade Sitawaka. It is widely accepted that a Portuguese army led...
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of Mulleriyawa. Godagama Sannasa mentions the gift of oil presented to Nawagamuwa Pattini Perahera by King Buwanekabahu V (1521–1580) King Mayadunne of...
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Lanka. Retrieved 24 November 2014. "Mayadunne and Rajasinha I". The Island. Retrieved 24 November 2014. "Sitawaka: A lost medieval kingdom". Ceylon Today...
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of Siri Sanga Bo was a powerful dynasty which ruled parts of Sri Lanka from Vijayabahu III of Dambadeniya (1220–1224) until Rajasinha I of Sitawaka (1581–1591)...
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Avissawella (redirect from Sitawaka)
capital of Sitawaka Kingdom from 1521 to 1593. Seethawaka was ruled by King Mayadunne and later his son Rajasinghe the First during this period. There is a...
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alongside the army of Mayadunne of Sitawaka in the 1562 Battle of Mulleriyawa. Tikiri Banda aka Rajasinha I of Sitawaka, who succeeded Mayadunne, became a faithful...
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vital, and thereby took advantage of royal rivalries between the Kingdoms. However, when the King of Sitawaka, Mayadunne, invaded the Kotte Kingdom and forced...
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Vijayaba Kollaya (film) (category Films set in the Crisis of the Sixteenth Century)
VII of Kotte and his sons Bhuvanaikabahu VII of Kotte, Mayadunne of Sitawaka and Raigama Bandara princes who succeeded King Parakramabahu IX of Kotte...
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1565, the capital of Kotte was abandoned by Dharmapala of Kotte due to frequent attacks from the Kingdom of Sitawaka led by Mayadunne and his son Rajasinghe...
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Mayadunne of Sitawaka (b. 1501) September 1 – Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534) September 16 – Peter Niers, notorious German bandit (date of birth...
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3 mi) on the other side of the Kelani River. It is thought that the fort was originally constructed by King Mayadunne of Sitawaka, to protect the ferry...
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Divana Rala, who was the custodian of the tooth relic, to move the relic from Kotte Kingdom to King Mayadunne of Sitawaka (now Avissawella) for safe keeping...
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use Portuguese against Mayadunne of Sitawaka and his Moorish allies for his own protection and not let neither take control of his kingdom. Once a sorcerer...
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Dominicus Corea (category Crisis of the Sixteenth Century)
Century Impressions of Ceylon,' notes that Don Jeronimo Corea was Commander-in-Chief- of the forces of Mayadunne, the great King of Sitawaka. ISBN 9780520043206...
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Rajasinha I of Sitawaka reverted to Saiva Siddhantism and made it the official religion during his reign, after a prolonged domination of Theravada Buddhism...
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Kuruvita Rala (category People of the Kingdom of Kotte)
southern half of Kandy Kingdom. He thereupon invited Mayadunne of Denawaka residing in India, one of the Sitawaka line, to be crowned as the king of Sri Lanka...
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rebellion, Mayadunne prepared to attack Kotte with the ruler of Kandy as his ally. When the news reached Veediya Bandara, he descended upon the army of Kandy...
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various times with the Jaffna Kingdom, the Madurai Nayak dynasty of South India, Sitawaka Kingdom, and the Dutch colonizers to ensure its survival. Throughout...
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