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Cankili II (Tamil: சங்கிலி குமாரன், romanized:
Caṅkili Kumāraṉ; died 1621), also
spelled Sangili) was the last king of the
Jaffna kingdom and was a usurper...
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Cankili I (Tamil: சங்கிலியன்) (died 1565), also
known as
Segarasasekaram (Jaga Rajasekharam), is the most
remembered Jaffna kingdom king in the Sri Lankan...
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kings confronted and
ultimately made
peace with the Portuguese. In 1617,
Cankili II, a
usurper to the throne,
confronted the
Portuguese but was defeated...
- his
father Cankili I in 1565. He
became king in 1561
following a
local uprising against Cankili I.
Although he was the
nominal king,
Cankili I wielded...
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southwest of
modern Sri
Lanka in 1505. Many
kings of Jaffna, such as
Cankili I,
initially confronted the
Portuguese in
their attempts at converting...
- the
Kingdom Cankili II but a
chance encounter lead to a
sharp but
brief battle that led to the
defeat of
Cankili II. By his order,
Cankili II was killed...
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opposing forces: the
greedy and
conspiring Portuguese imperialists and King
Cankili I of Jaffna, who
ruthlessly defends his
sovereign state from Portuguese...
- from 1215 with the
invasion of
Kalinga Magha to the
Portuguese conquest of
Jaffna Kingdom under Cankili II 1619.
Jaffna Kingdom History of Sri Lanka...
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Periya Pillai Arachchi a
powerful Karaiyar chief and
Cankili II the
nephew of the king.
Cankili II
killed the
other two
triggering a
local uprising against...
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kingdom from the 13th
until the 17th century, when the last of the dynasty,
Cankili II, was
ousted by the Portuguese. The
origins of the
Aryacakravarti are...
