Polonnaruwa electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between August 1947 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of...

administrative districts of Mannar, Mullaitivu and Vavuniya). The first general election which used these electoral districts was in 1989. According to...

183 electoral districts existed from 1947 to 1989 in Sri Lanka. The country's 1978 Constitution introduced a new proportional representation electoral system...

Chola empire during the reign of his son Rajendra Chola. The Kingdom of Polonnaruwa was the second major Sinhalese kingdom of Sri Lanka. It lasted from 1055...

to the present day. From 1948 to 1972, under the Ceylon Independence Act 1947 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 7), the Monarch of the United Kingdom the served as the...

Dematagoda. Gamini Medagedara, another Communist Party member, was killed at Polonnaruwa. KAD Saddhatissa, a retired school principal living in Akuressa and supporter...

candidate in the Maharagama Electoral District at the 1983 by-election, winning and entering Parliament. During the 1989 parliamentary election, Gunawardena...

was elected to – the House of Representatives from the Attanagalla Electoral District. He was appointed Minister of Health and served as Leader of the House...

fall of Anuradhapura Kingdom. Subsequently, they moved the capital to Polonnaruwa. Following a 17-year-long campaign, Vijayabahu I successfully drove the...

surrounding Konesar Malai. The Sinhalese king Gajabahu II who ruled Polonnaruwa from 1131 to 1153 CE is described in the Konesar Kalvettu as a devout...