Talk:Senarat of Kandy

This article is rated Stub-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Biography

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article has been automatically rated by a bot or other tool as Stub-class because it uses a stub template. Please ensure the assessment is correct before removing the `\|auto=` parameter.

Sri Lanka Top‑importance

	Sri Lanka portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Sri Lanka, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Sri Lanka on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Sri LankaWikipedia:WikiProject Sri LankaTemplate:WikiProject Sri LankaSri Lanka articles
Top	This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale.

Sri Lanka or Kandy?[edit]

I was about to link material to this article, when I noticed that the title used "Senarat of Sri Lanka" rather than "Senarat of Kandy". Rather than undertake a move in title myself, I'd rather canvass some opinions first. I've never seen Kings of Kandy referred to as "Kings of Sri Lanka". Indeed, I have never heard of any king of Sri Lanka in the modern era. Sri Lanka was not unified for eons. It contained several independent kingdoms (Kotte, Sitawaka, Jaffna, Kandy). Kandy was not even nominally suzerain (if anything, Kotte was, Kandy was a breakaway).

True, as it happens, during the reign of Senarat of Kandy, Kotte and Sitawaka had come under Portuguese vassalship, but Jaffna was still independent for a good part of the reign, and Senarat never ruled more than only the Kandy part of the island (and sometimes not even that). To my knoweldge, although fought the Portuguese pretty incessantly, he never claimed dominion over the whole island (to my knowledge).

On the other hand, this article List of Sri Lankan monarchs seems to place all the kings of all the different Sri Lankan kingdoms in one place, which makes me fear treading on any sensitive toes with a change from 'Sri Lanka' to 'Kandy'. Walrasiad (talk) 07:21, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion[edit]

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:

King Senarath.jpg

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 13:08, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]