Kalmunai

Kalmunai is a city in the Ampara District of Sri Lanka. It had an aggregate populace of 106,780 starting at 2011. It is the one of Muslim-dominant part region in the nation. At the point when Muslims in Colombo were ousted by Portuguese in the seventeenth century, they fled to Kandy and looked for asylum with the lord in Kandy. At that point the ruler resettled these Muslim displaced people in Kalmunai and Kattankudy. Kalmunai was the Royal homestead of the ruler. On account of this settlement, it turned into a Muslim-dominant part zone.

There were Sri Lankan Muslims, Sri Lankan Tamils, Sinhalese, and Burghers with the Moors shaping a lion's share. It comprises of four noteworthy districts in particular Kalmunai city, Kalmunai North Pandiruppu, Maruthamunai and Neelavanai, Kalmunai South Sainthamaruthu and Kalmunai West. The obliterating Sri Lankan common war has antagonistically influenced the zone with number a constrained vanishings, and common agitation focusing on the neighborhood regular citizens. It was additionally specifically affected by the 2004 Tsunami, prompting number of passings and annihilation of property worth of a large number of rupees. It is limited on the east by the Indian Ocean on the north by the Periyaneelavanai town and on the south by Karaitivu town of the city.