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    Nallur (Tamil: நல்லூர்; Sinhala: නල්ලූර්) is an affluent suburb in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It is located 3 km south from Jaffna city centre. Nallur is most...
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    in the Jaffna peninsula from classical antiquity. Jaffna's suburb Nallur served as the capital of the four-century-long medieval Tamil Jaffna Kingdom...
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    Tamil), who ruled the Jaffna kingdom on behalf of the Kotte kingdom is credited with building the third Nallur Kandaswamy temple. Nallur served as the capital...
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    kingdom, they were eventually defeated. Nallur, a suburb of modern Jaffna town, was its capital. The origin of the Jaffna kingdom is obscure and still the subject...
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    royal abode and structure of the ruling dynasty of the Kingdom of Jaffna, Nallur, Jaffna in Northern Sri Lanka. The palace was the home to the Aryacakravarti...
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    Furtado de Mendonça, started from Mannar and continued to Nallur, the capital of the Jaffna kingdom. The Portuguese captured the kingdom, killed the king...
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  • Constantino de Bragança and resulted in the capture of the capital, Nallur. The king of Jaffna, Cankili I, managed to escape and regained the capital through...
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    The Nallur Polling Division is a Polling Division in the Jaffna Electoral District, in the Northern Province, Sri Lanka. The winner of Nallur has matched...
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  • Nallur can refer to: Nallur, Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh Nallur, Erode, Tamil Nadu Nallur, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu Nallur, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu...
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    The Portuguese conquest of the Jaffna kingdom occurred after Portuguese traders arrived at the rival Kotte kingdom in the southwest of modern Sri Lanka...
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