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Yamasinghe Bandara

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ8047942 ↗
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Yamasinghe Bandara was a Kandyan Prince who was the nephew of the reiging monarch Karalliyadde Bandara, (r. 1551 to 1581). Bandara helped the Portuguese take control of Kandy and was installed as ruler in 1592. However Bandara died the following year.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yamasinghe Bandara” 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.