Thulhiriya
village in Kurunegala, Sri Lanka
Thulhiriya is a village in the Kegalle District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka.
History
In 1968 the government established the state-owned Thulhiriya Textile Mill, it was privatised to Bombay Dyne in 1980 and then Kabool Lanka until 2003. This was the largest textile mill in Sri Lanka. The mill was constructed in an area of 5.7 ha (14 acres) and under one roof. In 2006 MAS Holdings established a fabric park in Thulhiriya, the country's first privately owned apparel intensive free trade zone. The fabric park spans 66.6 ha (165 acres) and provides employment to over 8,200 people. Since it was established a further eight companies have set up factories in the fabric park.
Thulhiriya has well-established road and railway links. The village is located on the A6 (Colombo - Kurunegala) highway and near the Alawwa railway station, which is on the Main Line (Colombo to Badulla).
“Thulhiriya” enters the record as village in Kurunegala, Sri Lanka. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Thulhiriya, village and Kurunegala can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Thulhiriya” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Thulhiriya, village and Kurunegala provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27449074. Authority coordinates are 7.274, 80.227. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1968, 1980, 2003 and 2006.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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.
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This entry incorporates text from “Thulhiriya” 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.