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Thirunelveli, Sri Lanka

place in Northern Province, Sri Lanka

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ7785404 ↗
Source-derived summary

Thirunelveli (pronounced Thinna-veli) is a town in Jaffna District, Sri Lanka. The name in Tamil transliterates to "sacred paddy hedge". It is located about 5 km from Jaffna. This was the location of a LTTE attack that killed 13 soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army in July 1983, triggering the Sri Lankan Civil War.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Thirunelveli, Sri Lanka” as place in Northern Province, Sri Lanka. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Thirunelveli, Lanka and place can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as place in Northern Province, Sri Lanka. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7785404. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1983.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Thirunelveli, Sri Lanka”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Thirunelveli, Sri Lanka primary sources, Thirunelveli, Sri Lanka archive and Thirunelveli research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Thirunelveli, Sri Lanka”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Thirunelveli, Sri Lanka” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.