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  • Vimaladharmasuriya I of Kandy
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  • Vimaladharmasuriya I, also known as Konappu Bandara before Coronation and Dom Joan of Austria or Don Jhon Appuhamy, was a king of Sri Lanka who ruled the country from 1590 to 1604. He was a late 16th-century to early 17th-century king of the Kandyan Kingdom, located in the central hills of the present-day island nation of Sri Lanka. His reputation was built when he successfully repulsed two major Portuguese offensives in to Kandy. In 1594 the battle of Danture and in 1602 the Battle of Balana, in both of which the Portuguese had a humiliating defeat.
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place of burial
  • Sri Lanka
death place
  • Sri Lanka
Offspring
Spouse
Name
  • Vimaladharmasuriya I
royal house
Father
Birth Place
  • Sri Lanka
Title
death date
  • 1604
Successor
Years
  • 1592
Reign
  • 1590
othertitles
  • Don Jhon Appuhamy
  • Don Joan of Austria
  • Konappu Bandara
Predecessor
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  • Vimaladharmasuriya I, also known as Konappu Bandara before Coronation and Dom Joan of Austria or Don Jhon Appuhamy, was a king of Sri Lanka who ruled the country from 1590 to 1604. He was a late 16th-century to early 17th-century king of the Kandyan Kingdom, located in the central hills of the present-day island nation of Sri Lanka. His reputation was built when he successfully repulsed two major Portuguese offensives in to Kandy. In 1594 the battle of Danture and in 1602 the Battle of Balana, in both of which the Portuguese had a humiliating defeat.
is Commander of