Kingdom of Sitawaka
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The Kingdom of Sitawaka was a Sinhalese kingdom located in south-central Sri Lanka. It emerged from the division of the Kingdom of Kotte following the Spoiling of Vijayabahu in 1521. Over the course o
Successive invasions found it difficult to assert their control over the mountainous and thickly forested terrain of the kingdom of Kandy
Between 1518 and 1658, armed conflict took place between the native Sinhalese kingdoms of Sri Lanka, and the Portuguese Empire. It spanned from the Transitional to the Kandyan periods of Sri Lankan hi
Kingdom of Sitawaka
…Sitawaka remained unstable, having to contend with repeated uprisings in its restive Kandyan territories, as well as a wide-ranging and often devastating conflict with the Portuguese. Sitawaka disintegrated soon after the death of its last king Rajasinha I in 1593. The kingdom of Kotte had been the major power in western Sri Lanka…
The Portuguese army at Kandy during the campaign of Danture, by Philippus Baldaeus
Lithograph of a 1501 Portuguese inscription on a boulder in Colombo
Plan view of Portuguese Colombo, made in 1650
A Portuguese illustration of Sinhalese warriors, produced c. 1540