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	Trincomalee - LoveToKnow 1911
		TRINCOMALEE, a town and former naval station on the north-east coast of Ceylon, loo m.
		It is built on the north side of the bay of Trincomalee, on the neck of a bold peninsula separating the inner from the outer harbour.
		The whole area was connected with cable and telephone communication, and armed with the latest type of guns; and the fortress was supposed to be impregnable; but in the following year the station was abandoned, the naval yard closed, and the military garrison withdrawn.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Trincomalee (375 words)

	Trincomalee in Legend and History
		On the summit of the Rock, known as the Swami Rock or the Three Swami Rock, was the “temple of unusual size and splendor, renowned through the whole of India,” the temple which was razed to the ground and despoiled by the Portuguese in 1624.
		Trincomalee and its environs are sacred to the Buddhist as to the Hindu.
		The situation of Trincomalee in an environment comparatively less developed and sparsely populated, has been a handicap in the past ages, to its advancement.
	www.kataragama.org /sacred/koneswaram.htm (1169 words)

	Trincomalee Summary
		Trincomalee lies in the region of Sri Lanka where part of the population belongs to the Tamil ethnic group, and are Hindus by religion, in contrast to the island's majority group, which are ethnic Sinhalese and Buddhists.
		Trincomalee was one of the cities hardest hit by the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on December 26,2004.
		Trincomalee and its environs are sacred to the Hindus as to the Buddhist.
	www.bookrags.com /Trincomalee (1917 words)

	HMS Trincomalee - Training Days as TS Foudroyant
		Trincomalee was towed to Sunderland to act as tender for the drill ship HMS Castor, a vessel used to train Naval Volunteers (boys of 15 or 16 who had signed up to serve for a minimum of ten years once they reached the age of 18).
		Trincomalee was moved to West Hartlepool, at the time Britain's third biggest port, and, although no one knew it at the time, her future permanent home.
		Trincomalee was moved to Cowes for repairs and conversion, including the addition of an additional poop deck covering the quarter deck.
	www.hms-trincomalee.co.uk /historic/training/training.htm (480 words)

	Trincomalee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Trincomalee lies close to the region of Sri Lanka where the population is mostly Hindu Tamils in contrast to the island's majority group, which are ethnic Sinhalese and Buddhists.
		Trincomalee was one of the cities hardest hit by the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on December 26, 2004.
		Trincomalee and its environs are sacred to the Hindus as to the Buddhist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trincomalee (1816 words)

	Human Rights Situation in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		For example, reports indicate that the Police and Army in Trincomalee town are working together, traveling throughout the city with a police bus and filling it up with new detainees daily.
		Relief and rehabilitation NGOs based in Trincomalee town report no open opposition to their efforts, but they explain that military passes are routinely denied and unauthorized restrictions are often placed on relief supplies.
		Organizations based in villages outside of Trincomalee town report greater difficulty in their work, and have experienced many problems with the forces in relation to their work in Tiger controlled areas.
	www.peacebrigades.org /lanka/slp9601.html (1264 words)

	HIMAL SOUTHASIAN \| May - June 2006
		Trincomalee, called Thrikanaamale in Sinhala and Thirukonamalai in Tamil, is once again very much in the news.
		The Trincomalee violence, however, has shown otherwise: all of the ingredients for renewal of anti-Tamil aggression remain in place.
		The sad lesson from the presidential election and the Trincomalee violence is that the so-called paradigm shift has not taken place after all.
	www.himalmag.com /2006/may/analysis_1.html (1838 words)

	Channelnewsasia.com
		Casualties mounted through the afternoon with 49 soldiers taken to one hospital in the Trincomalee district, and another 30 were taken to the adjoining Polonnaruwa district, hospital sources said.
		A military official in Trincomalee, 260 kilometres (160 miles) northeast of the capital, said the latest offensive was part of a move to secure local military facilities against long-range attacks by the Tigers.
		Trincomalee, which was a staging post for Allied forces during the two world wars, has an oil storage facility that provides energy security to the nation of 19.5 million people.
	www.channelnewsasia.com /stories/afp_asiapacific/print/227278/1/.html (606 words)

	Trincomalee May 2006
		The ethnic Tamils of Trincomalee, who are mostly Hindu and Christian, saw the clandestine raising of the Buddha statue as an act of provocation by Sinhalese Buddhists.
		Trincomalee is a demographic microcosm of the country, with Tamils, Sinhalese and Muslims living in roughly equal numbers.
		Trincomalee is from the Tamil "Thiru - Konam - Malai, " i.e.
	sangam.org /taraki/articles/2006/05-15_Trincomalee.php?uid=1740 (2396 words)

	TERRIBLE TRUTH OF THE TRINCOMALEE TRAGEDY By D.B.S.JEYARAJ
		Though Trincomalee was bustling actively after many years of the ceasefire the atmosphere had deteriorated in recent times.
		Trincomalee had not seen such a large funeral procession after the one for former Federal Party MP Rajavarothayam.
		The JVP sponsored hartal in Trincomalee included a new demand that no inquiry should be held into the Trincomalee deaths.
	www.uthayam.net /articles/jan19_2006html.htm (3041 words)

	Trincomalee District
		Trincomalee is a city having natural resource and situated in Eastern province.
		The reason to call Trincomalee is that it is because surrounded by three mountains.
		Trincomalee harbour is the second best natural harbour in the world.It’s location is the only reason to make it the second place.
	www.britishcouncil.lk /kidsintouch/trincomalee/district.htm (440 words)

	Trincomalee. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Trincomalee is a railroad terminus and an important road junction and is noted for its rice and coconut plantations.
		Because control of Trincomalee was a key to domination over the Coromandel Coast of India, Britain and France sought (18th cent.) to wrest the city from the Dutch; it was captured (1795) by the British.
		During World War II, Trincomalee was the British naval headquarters in the Pacific theater and had an airfield from which U.S. planes operated against the Japanese in Myanmar and Malaya.
	www.bartleby.com /65/tr/Trincoma.html (276 words)

	Asia Times Online - The best news coverage from South Asia
		Trincomalee, meanwhile, is considered by military experts as one of the best deep seat ports in the world.
		The recent revival of interest in Trincomalee in the Pentagon can then only be associated with the growing overall US interest in acquiring bases for intervention and rapid deployment for the sake of developing a quick strike capability in the general area.
		One result of Gandhi's trip to Trincomalee is an Indo-Sri Lankan agreement to lease part of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation's 99 oil tanks, each with a capacity of 100,000 tonnes, to the Indian Oil Corp. The deal was signed in New Delhi in June, 2002.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/FA31Df02.html (2486 words)

	Sinhala hoodlums attack and kill Tamils in Trincomalee, 12/15 April 2006
		As soon as the bomb blast at the central market area was heard, the Sinhala thugs were released from the trucks to swing their machetes in the midst of Tamils, a radio in Sri Lanka said.12 were killed and more than 45 injured, 15 seriously, the report says.
		For the culprits involved with his murder escaping and the thugs involved with the carnage on Wednesday in Trincomalee, going free is not possible without the connivance of the armed forces.
		Her body was latter found on the road and handed over to the mortuary of the Trincomalee general hospital Friday night, sources said.
	www.tamilnation.org /indictment/continuingwar/060415tna.htm (2040 words)

	travelsrilanka - Trincomalee: Deep Harbour, Commanding Fort - Sri Lanka
		During colonial history, most of these visitors were interested primarily in Trincomalee’s best asset – her deep harbour and strategic location in the Bay of Bengal.
		Trincomalee was where, in 1660, Englishman Robert Knox was captured by the army of Rajasingha II, King of Kandy, after coming ashore from the Ann, which was anchored in Koddiyar Bay.
		Fishermen from the fishing villages throughout the area gather to sell their day’s catch, much of which is snapped up by Colombo traders who then package the fish into large wooden crates crammed with ice and transport it by road to the capital.
	www.travelsrilanka.com /index.cfm?PAGE=787 (1104 words)

	Trincomalee - Holy Hill of Siva
		'Trincomalee' is the Europeanised form of the Tamil TIRU-KONA- MA -MALAI or TIRU-KONA-MALAI, 'the Holy Hill of Lord Siva'.
		The earliest reference in the Pali Chronicles of Ceylon to the Saiva shrine at Trincomalee is found in the Mahavamsa (Ch.
		There is, however, ample evidence in Tamil religious literature to demonstrate the antiquity and the reverence with which these Saiva shrines at Trincomalee in the Eastern coast and at Tirukethiswaram in the Western coast were held by the Tamils in South India and Ceylon.
	members.tripod.com /kanaga_sritharan/trincomalee.htm (2133 words)

	travelsrilanka - Trincomalee - Sri Lanka
		Trincomalee - or Trinco as it is often referred to - is a port town on the northeastern coast whose size and appearance is not commensurate with its colourful colonial history and military significance.
		Visitors to Trincomalee naturally gravitate towards Fort Frederick, which is located on a promontory to the east of the town.
		Close to the main gate, on the right hand side of the archway, is an inscription with the double-fish emblem of the South Indian Pandyan Empire that predicts the conquest of Trincomalee by the Franks.
	www.travelsrilanka.com /index.cfm?PAGE=742 (1169 words)

	Trincomalee - Tourism
		From this and other related accounts, it is reasonable to conclude that the Pallava kings bestowed much attention to the temple dedicated to Koneswara and enlarged it considerably.
		The inscriptions at the archway of Fort Frederick with the insignia of the double fish symbolism of the Pandyan kings, are eloquent of the Pandyan connections ascribed to the 13th century." - Trincomalee in Lengend and History
		In effect, a public bathing resort, the use of the springs is controlled by the neighboring Mari Amman Kovil who holds the lease of the wells.
	www.sathi-us.net /sindu/designs/trincomalee/tourism.html (888 words)

	Trincomalee,Travel to Trincomalee in Sri Lanka,Trincomalee Travel in Sri Lanka
		The very old port of Trincomalee situated on the northeast coast of Sri Lanka has an idle natural harbor that has created the region an award to be fought over by foreign powers for generations.
		Erected on an isthmus with deep bays to seaward, Trincomalee is the biggest city in the region.
		With its imperative geographic location Trincomalee influence the focus of European powers in the beginning of the 17th century.
	srilanka.tourism-asia.net /trincomalee.html (469 words)

	PBI Sri Lanka: Field trip to Trincomalee: Nov 17 to 26 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This was my first trip to Trincomalee since arriving on the team one month previously, although I had already been to Batticaloa, the other main town in the Eastern Province which PBI regularly visits.
		A large part of the Trincomalee district consists of "uncleared areas"-- areas under the control of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam).
		On the Trincomalee side live the Tamil families; in the north half of the village, the Muslim ones.
	www.peacebrigades.org /lanka/slp97-12b.html (1702 words)

	Trincomalee — Infoplease.com
		Trincomalee is a railroad terminus and an important road junction and is noted for its rice and coconut plantations.
		Because control of Trincomalee was a key to domination over the Coromandel Coast of India, Britain and France sought (18th cent.) to wrest the city from the Dutch; it was captured (1795) by the British.
		During World War II, Trincomalee was the British naval headquarters in the Pacific theater and had an airfield from which U.S. planes operated against the Japanese in Myanmar and Malaya.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0849423.html (368 words)

	The Hindu : International : Monitors suspend Trincomalee plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		COLOMBO: The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) — a team of Nordic monitors overseeing the ceasefire agreement — on Tuesday announced suspending operations in the eastern Trincomalee district, hours after 12 Sri Lankan sailors were injured in a suspected LTTE attack on a Navy bus.
		"Following the recent escalation of violence in Trincomalee, culminating in the bomb attack against a Navy bus, the SLMM has decided to suspend operational activities in Trincomalee until further notice," an official statement said.
		The district, which has a near-equal proportion of the island's main ethnicities Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims — is considered a possible flashpoint in an increasingly brittle ceasefire.
	www.hindu.com /2006/01/18/stories/2006011803461600.htm (340 words)

	Channelnewsasia.com
		Hundreds of civilians in the conflict areas of Jaffna in the north of the island and Trincomalee in the northeast were on the run, adding to concerns about those displaced in the South Asian island nation, aid workers said.
		The attacks on Trincomalee ended by morning, but sporadic artillery barrages were being fired at the military-held section of the Jaffna peninsula, officials said.
		The fighting in Trincomalee, 260 kilometres (160 miles) northeast of the capital Colombo, came as the Tigers accused the military of attacking across a de facto frontline in the Jaffna peninsula, 400 kilometres north of here.
	www.channelnewsasia.com /stories/afp_asiapacific/view/224488/1/.html (713 words)

	Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka
		Tables 2.6 and 2.7 present the percentage of damaged housing units by number of rooms and the floor area of the all types of damaged housing units in affected DS divisions respectively.
		Percentage distribution of the damaged** housing units in the affected DS divisions* by ownership of the land Trincomalee District.
		There are 9 tables from 8.1 to 8.9 to show the percentage distribution for type of damage, distance from the sea to the building, type of unit, economic activity carried out prior to Tsunami, number of employees, material used for construction, floor area, ownership and estimated total loss by DS level in this section.
	www.statistics.gov.lk /Tsunami/final/Trincomalee (2861 words)

	Trincomalee
		Scholten refers to the Trincomalee coins as "for the most part the coins made here are square or are at any rate very irregular in shape".
		Actually, all the dumps coins of Ceylon are of irregular shape but in the case of Trincomalee, the dumps tend to be clipped in a triangular shape for the most part.
		The Trincomalee Stuiver with the complete reverse circle intact is believed to be unique.
	members.tripod.com /ceylonweb/trincomalee.htm (156 words)

	HMS Trincomalee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy Leda-class sailing frigate built shortly following the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
		The Trincomalee was built of teak, due to oak shortages, in Bombay India in 1817.
		The ship was named Trincomalee, after an action in 1782 between the Royal and French navies off the Ceylon (Sri Lanka) port of that name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Trincomalee (189 words)

	Trincomalee - History
		"Trincomalee has one of the world's finest natural harbors and can accommodate the largest vessels - this fact led to Trincomalee being captured in turn by the Portuguese, Dutch, French and British from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
		Because control of Trincomalee was a key to domination over the Coromandel Coast of India, Britain and France sought (18th cent.) to wrest the city from the Dutch; it was captured (1795) by the British.
		During World War II, Trincomalee was the British naval headquarters in the Pacific theater and had an airfield from which U.S. planes operated against the Japanese in Myanmar and Malaya.
	www.sathi-us.net /sindu/designs/trincomalee/history.html (229 words)

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