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Jaffna Fort

Headquarters of Tamil Culture The Jaffna Fort

Jaffna is considered as the headquarters of Hindu Tamil Culture in Sri Lanka. But archaeological evidence that the Buddhist culture spread in other areas as well as in the Far North in the early days of Sri Lanka’s history testifies to this. After the collapse of Polonnaruwa in the 13th century, the Jaffna Fort Peninsula or Nagadeepa was gradually developed […]