Talk:Kings of Sri Lanka

What a load of nonsense!

Is this an encyclopaedia or a Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) advertisement page?

Sri Lanka is the name given to the entire island in 1972.

The entire island was made a single political entity in 1802.

Prior to 1802 there were three kingdoms on the island. A Tamil kingdom comprising of the North and East of the island had been in existence for 1000s of years.

Not so.

Sri Lanka (or Lanka) has been the name of the island known to most of its residents from 400 B.C

Politically the island has been fragmented, and united numerous times in the last 2500 years. At times a united kingdom existed (including the northern areas, and in some cases part of southern India) at other times the island was fragmented (as the poster above describes) into two, three, or even more political entities. The Tamil kingdom (or kingdoms) in the north, had independence at some times, at other times they payed suzereinty to southern Kingdoms (as described for example in Robert Knoxs book published in the 1600s)

This is a duplicate article
Its information is already in List of rulers of Sri Lanka, which is much more complete and better formatted as well, so I am putting in a redirect. Tyronen 01:48, 11 August 2006 (UTC)