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Killinochchi is a small city in the Kilinochchi district on northern province of Sri Lanka .Killinochchi is situated at the A9 road some 100 km south-east of Jaffna . Presently this city is the administration center of the LTTE . HISTORY The Kilinochchi is in the vicinity of the once flourishing Nallur city offs the coast of the Jaffna Lagoon , which was once the capital of the Naga kingdom. The Northern part of the Indian-Ocean's Island throve during the Naga Kingdom from 6th century BC to the middle of the 3rd century AD. Naga People were of the Tibeto-Burman origin, a race and migrated to India 4000 BC, driven by some political disturbances from Central Asia through the North Eastern frontier of the Himalayan mountain range. Nagas were a prominent non- Aryan race in India and their names are still preserved in various parts of India. The Indo-Aryan invasion in the Indian subcontinent had driven them South and they invaded further South towards the Island. Nagas were dependent on the sea for their living and established trade with India, and developed art and culture. Nagas were well known Elephanteers and the Elephant rearing and exporting to India through Naga's era Jambukolam Port(today's Mathagal in the Jaffna Peninsula) from Kilinochchi and rest of the Island could be well evidenced by the Elephant Pass , a cross-passage of Elephants, near the Kilinochchi Town. DEMOGRAPHY Most people living in Kilinochchi are Sri Lankan Tamils , although sizable amounts of Sri Lankan Moors and Sinhalese people were found before their exodus in 1991 which was ordered by the LTTE ECONOMY Kilinochchi is one of the major Agrarian Cultivation destinations in the Island from the Pre-historical times. Iranamadu Tank, Kanakampikai Kulam (Pond), and Kilinochchi Kulam are the major Irrigation source for Paddy and various other cultivations. REFERENCES |
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