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KURUNEGALA

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 954 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KURUNEGALA  , the

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chief
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town in the
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north-western
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province of
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Ceylon . Pop. of the town, 6483; of the
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district, 249,429 . It was the
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residence of the
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kings of Ceylon from A.D . 1319 to 1347, and is romantically situated under the shade of Adagalla (the
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rock of the Tusked
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Elephant), which is 600 ft. high . It was in 1902 the
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terminus of the
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Northern railway (59 M. from
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Colombo, which has since been extended 200 M. farther, to the northern-most
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coast of the
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Jaffna
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Peninsula . Kurunegala is the centre of
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rice, coco-
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nut,
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tea,
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coffee and
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cocoa cultivation .

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