3-800: A Bandâra was a Great Officer in the Amātya Mandalaya , or Sinhalese Council of State, in the Sinhalese Kingdoms of premodern Sri Lanka . A Bandâra was the sons of a chief in the Sinhala Kingdom . In the Sinhalese Buddhist faith, the Bandāra deviyō are a group of guardian deities . This Sri Lanka –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sinhala Kingdom [REDACTED] Sri Lanka portal The Sinhala kingdom or Sinhalese kingdom refers to
6-764: The British takeover . While the Sinhala kingdom is claimed to have existed from 543 BCE to 1815 CE, other political entities claimed to have co-existed in Sri Lanka spanning certain partial periods, including the Jaffna kingdom (which existed 1215–1624 CE), Vanni chieftaincies (which existed from the 12th century to 1803 CE) and the Portuguese and Dutch colonies (which existed 1597–1658 CE and 1640–1796 respectively). During these partial periods of time, these political entities were not part of
9-417: The successive Sinhalese kingdoms that existed in what is today Sri Lanka . The Sinhalese kingdoms are kingdoms known by the city at which its administrative centre was located. These are in chronological order: the kingdoms of Tambapanni , Upatissa Nuwara , Anuradhapura , Polonnaruwa , Dambadeniya , Gampola , Kotte , Sitawaka and Kandy . The Sinhala kingdom ceased to exist by 1815, following
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