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Jaffna
[ jahf-nuh ]
noun
- a seaport in N Sri Lanka.
Jaffna
/ ˈdʒæfnə /
noun
- a port in N Sri Lanka: for many centuries the capital of a Tamil kingdom. Pop: 149 000 (2005 est)
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There was no tradition of a tiger having been in Jaffna before.
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And one is a case at the Jaffna Hospital, Ceylon; no date; and nothing said about the dog.
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The railway extension from Kurunegala due north to Jaffna and the coast was commenced in 1900.
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Jaffna is the seat of a government agent and district judge, and criminal sessions of the supreme court are regularly held.
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At Jaffna, on Sundays, about a thousand or twelve hundred people attend church and on feast days three thousand and upward.
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