Template:Regional Documentation - Ampara
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| Project Number | NF/PG/2024/0003 | Grant Agency / Donors | University of Toronto Scarborough Libray | Project Owner | Noolaham Foundation | |
| Project Mentor | Mayooranathan Ratnavelpillai | Project Locations | Sri Lanka | Project Period | 2024 | |
| Stakeholders | Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation | |||||
Ampara is located 320 km from Colombo. Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims live in the city. Ampara district has four parliamentary constituencies namely Kalmunai, Sammanthurai, Pottuvil and Ampara. Ampara district is located along the Urogana region. After the tenth century, some of the tribes that inhabited the coast of the present Ampara district played an important role in the administration of the Batticaloa region. Today's Sammanthurai was the capital of the then Batticaloa region. Thirukovil Murugan Temple was one of the famous temples in the East.
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