Kandy (lka)

Kandy

Kandy ranks 8,911th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Alor Gajah, Fenghua, Ningbo, and Lipno, Lipno County. Memorable people born in Kandy include M. G. Ramachandran, Muttiah Muralitharan, and Mathilda Karlsson. Memorable people who died in Kandy include Joseph Vaz, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, and D. M. Jayaratne. Kandy has been the birth place of many actors, and cricketers and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures. Kandy is located in Sri Lanka.

Kandy is a major city located in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. It was the last capital of the Sinhalese monarchy from 1469 to 1818, under the Kingdom of Kandy. The city is situated in the midst of hills in the Kandy plateau, which crosses an area of tropical plantations, mainly tea. Kandy is both an administrative and religious city and the capital of the Central Province. Kandy is the home of the Temple of the Tooth Relic, one of the most sacred places of worship in the Buddhist world. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1988. Historically the local Buddhist rulers resisted Portuguese, Dutch, and British colonial expansion and occupation. Read more on Wikipedia