Crisis of the Sixteenth Century
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Crisis of the Sixteenth Century
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The Crisis of the Sixteenth Century was the later part of the Transitional period of Sri Lanka, that began with the decline of the Kingdom of Kotte, with the Vijayabā Kollaya in 1521, culminated in the collapse of the Kingdom of Sitawaka, and with Portuguese dominance of Sri Lankan coasts, if not control by 1597, over two of three kingdoms that had existed at the start of the century. The Kingdom of Kandy was the only independent Sinhalese kingdom to survive. The period was characterised by the
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Period of Sri Lankan history from 1521 to 1597
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_the_Sixteenth_Century
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2021-10-12T06:42:15Z
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