• Made in Jaffna is a 14-song studio album curated by Toronto-based Tamil artist Shan Vincent de Paul which released on 6 September 2021. It is Shan's third...
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    Jaffna District located on a peninsula of the same name. With a population of 88,138 in 2012, Jaffna is Sri Lanka's 12th most populous city. Jaffna is...
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    town of Jaffna on the Jaffna peninsula and was traditionally thought to have been established after the invasion of Kalinga Magha from Kalinga in India...
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  • The burning of the Jaffna Public Library (Tamil: யாழ் பொது நூலகம் எரிப்பு, Yāḻ potu nūlakam erippu; Sinhala: යාපනය මහජන පුස්තකාලය ගිනිබත් කිරීම, Yāpanaya...
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  • Neeye Oli (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
    Vincent de Paul. It is the second release from the upcoming studio album Made in Jaffna curated by Shan which was under production for four years. It released...
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    best known for his debut album "Saviors". SVDP was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka and fled the country in his young age due to the civil war and moved to Canada...
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  • university in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Established in 1974 as the sixth campus of the University of Sri Lanka, it became an independent, autonomous university in 1979...
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    Tamil genocide (category Ethnic cleansing in Asia)
    song by M.I.A. One Hundred Thousand Flowers (2020), from the album Made in Jaffna song by Shan Vincent de Paul Sri Lanka's Killing Fields Sri Lanka's...
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    நல்லூர்; Sinhala: නල්ලූර්) is an affluent suburb in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It is located 3 km south from Jaffna city centre. Nallur is most famous for Nallur...
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  • is appointed by the intelligence agency R&AW to head covert operations in Jaffna shortly after Indian peace-keeping force was forced to withdraw. Madras...
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  • Sarpatta Parambarai (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
    female rap vocals by Navz-47, created the song for the studio album Made in Jaffna, which was set to be released by the independent music platform Maajja...
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  • Jaffna International Airport (Tamil: யாழ்ப்பாணம் சர்வதேச விமான நிலையம், romanized: Yāḻppāṇam Carvatēca Vimāṉa Nilaiyam; Sinhala: යාපනය ජාත්‍යන්තර ගුවන්තොටුපළ...
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    Jaffna, such as Cankili I, initially confronted the Portuguese in their attempts at converting the locals to Roman Catholicism, but eventually made peace...
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  • Operation Pawan (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
    Force (IPKF) to take control of Jaffna from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), better known as the Tamil Tigers, in late 1987 to enforce the disarmament...
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    in Sri Lanka live in the Northern and Eastern provinces. Modern Sri Lankan Tamils descend from residents of the Jaffna Kingdom, a former kingdom in the...
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  • The Portuguese invasion of Jaffna kingdom in 1560 AD was the first expedition against the Jaffna kingdom by the Portuguese Empire. It was led by Viceroy...
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  • have been passed down the centuries from father to son by word of mouth. In Jaffna, genealogical information about prominent families were also traditionally...
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  • date the start of the history of the Jaffna kingdom is debated among historians. The name 'Ko Veta' is engraved in Brahmi script on a seal buried with...
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  • Nadarajah Raviraj (category Alumni of St. John's College, Jaffna)
    Lankan lawyer and politician who served as Mayor of Jaffna in 2001 and a Member of Parliament for Jaffna District from 2001 to 2006. A member of the Tamil...
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    South India's McLeod Hospital in Inuvil in northern Ceylon. His family are from the Vadamarachchi region of the Jaffna peninsula; his father is from Karaveddy...
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  • Maajja (category Record labels established in 2021)
    fraction of that and help artists sustain themselves, we would have made an impact in the lives of millions, Noel Kirthiraj Maajja aims to establish sustainable...
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    Nallur Kandaswamy temple (category Hindu temples in Jaffna District)
    of Kotte. Sapumal Kumaraya (also known as Chempaha Perumal in Tamil), who ruled the Jaffna kingdom on behalf of the Kotte kingdom is credited with building...
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  • of the Jaffna kingdom was an expedition against the Jaffna kingdom by the Kotte kingdom. The Kotte's campaign had several phases against Jaffna dated between...
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  • Jaffna College is a private school in Vaddukoddai, Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1871 as a successor to the Batticotta Seminary which had been established...
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  • school in Gurunagar, Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1850 by Roman Catholic missionaries. The Jaffna Catholic English School was established in 1850...
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    and a population of 1,061,315, making it the least populated province. Jaffna is the capital city of the province. Between 1988 and 2006, the province...
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  • Rahmanullah Gurbaz (category Jaffna Kings cricketers)
    Sultans to play in the rescheduled matches in the 2021 Pakistan Super League. In November 2021, he was selected to play for the Jaffna Kings following...
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    (2023) which are both Tamil cinema releases. In September 2021, he was announced as the new owner of the Jaffna Kings for the Lanka Premier League (LPL)....
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  • was expelled from Jaffna. According to a 1981 census (the last official count), the total Muslim population in Jaffna was 14,844. In total, over 14,400...
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    library movement in Sri Lanka and laid the foundation for building the Jaffna Public Library. In 1933, he started the first library in Jaffna, through lending...
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