Back তাম্রপর্ণীর রাজ্য Bengali/Bangla Regne de Tambapanni Catalan Royaume de Tambapanni French Regno di Tambapanni Italian タンバパンニ王国 Japanese 탐바판니 왕국 Korean തംബപാണി രാജ്യം Malayalam ताम्रपर्णी राज्य NE තම්බපණ්ණි රාජධානිය SI Kraljestvo Tambapanni SL
Kingdom of Tambapaṇṇī | |||||||||||
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| 543 BC–437 BC | |||||||||||
 Kingdom of Tambapanni | |||||||||||
| Capital | Tambapaṇṇī[1] Upatissagāma[2] Vijithapura[3] | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Elu | ||||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Sinhalese | ||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||
| King | |||||||||||
• 543–505 BC | Vijaya | ||||||||||
• 505–504 BC | Upatissa | ||||||||||
• 504–474 BC | Panduvasdeva | ||||||||||
• 474–454 BC | Abhaya | ||||||||||
• 454–437 BC | Tissa | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Pre Anuradhapura period | ||||||||||
| 543 BC | |||||||||||
• Consecration of Vijaya | 543 BC | ||||||||||
| 458–439 BC | |||||||||||
• Kingdom moved to Anuradhapura | 437 BC | ||||||||||
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The Kingdom of Tambapaṇṇī (Sinhala: තම්බපණ්ණිය රාජධානිය, romanized: Tambapaṇṇī Rājadhāniya) was the first Sinhalese kingdom in Sri Lanka. Its administrative centre was based at Tambapaṇṇī. It existed between 543 BC and 437 BC. According to the Mahavamsa, the Kingdom was founded by Prince Vijaya and his followers.
- ^ palikanon.com 2019.
- ^ Malalasekera 2017.
- ^ Codrington 1926, p. 9.