Significant993 CE

Chola Conquest of Anuradhapura

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Anuradhapura · Rajarata · Sri Lanka

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Around 993 CE Rajaraja I's Chola army invaded northern Sri Lanka and sacked the ancient capital Anuradhapura, annexing the north as a Chola province and inaugurating roughly three-quarters of a century of Chola rule in the island.

Belligerents2

Chola Empire
Anuradhapura Kingdom

ON THE MAPChola Empire

Sources

Wikipedia: Chola conquest of Anuradhapura
Nilakanta Sastri, The CoLas
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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