{"id":4584,"date":"2020-04-16T09:40:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T09:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/?page_id=4584"},"modified":"2020-05-17T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T17:03:00","slug":"journey-through-the-ancient-northern-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/destinations\/jaffna\/tales-of-jaffna\/journey-through-the-ancient-northern-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey Through the Ancient Northern Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Lying at the tip of the island, the city of Jaffna was once the stronghold of the north and then a significant colonial outpost. Today, it is a thriving city that displays an eclectic mix of history, faith and culture. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The famous traveller Ibn Battuta, when visiting the island of Sri Lanka in the 14<sup>th<\/sup> century, chronicled that the domain of the Kingdom of Jaffna extended from the modern-day city to the west coast hamlet of Puttalam, which was at the centre of the rich pearl trade industry.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the rich and illustrious history of the Kingdom of Jaffna is documented in chronicles such as the Mahavamsa, and the Manimekelai. The city is home to several monuments that allow you to reimagine a kingdom of old ruled by native kings, invaded by South Indian kingdoms, and eventually colonised by European powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lying at the tip of the island, the city of Jaffna was once the stronghold of the north and then a significant colonial outpost. Today, it is a thriving city that displays an eclectic mix of history, faith and culture. The famous traveller Ibn Battuta, when visiting the island of Sri Lanka in the 14th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":4577,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4584","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4584\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}