Nissanka Alagakkonara (1340-1380) was the chieftain at Rayigama during the fourteenth century Sri Lanka. Alagakkonara was an ethnic Tamil. He built a fortress at Sri Jayewardenapura-Kotte to defend his southern chieftaincy, holding back advances of the King of Jaffna. The Tamil people are an ethnic group from the Indian subcontinent with a recorded history going back more than two millennia. ... District Kotte Division, Colombo District Mayor Swarnalatha Silva (Sri Lanka Freedom Party) Area    - City 17 km² Population    - City (2001) 115,826 ( 2001 census )  - Density 3,305/km²  - Metro 2,234,289 (Colombo metropolitan area) Time zone Sri Lanka Standard Time Zone (UTC+5:30) Sri Jayewardenapura-Kotte, (ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර කෝට්ටේ in Sinhala, ஸ்ரீ ஜயவர்த்தனபுரம் கோட்டே in... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

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• JAYAWARDHANAPURA: THE CAPITAL OF THE KINGDOM OF SRI LANKA c. 1400-1565 A. D.