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Dehideniya is a village in
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
. It is located within Central Province.


History

Dehideniya's first settler was Dehideniya Bandara of
Godapola Godapola is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province. See also *List of towns in Central Province, Sri Lanka Central Province is a province of Sri Lanka, containing the Kandy District, Matale District, and Nuwara Eliya Di ...
, according to
Archibald Campbell Lawrie Sir Archibald Campbell Lawrie, FRCI (8 September 1837 – 11 May 1914‘LAWRIE, Sir Archibald Campbell’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007) was a British judge in Ceylon and scholar of Scottish lega ...
's 1896 gazetteer of the province.


Demographics


See also

*
List of towns in Central Province, Sri Lanka Central Province is a province of Sri Lanka, containing the Kandy District, Matale District, and Nuwara Eliya District. The following is a list of settlements in the province. __NOTOC__ A Abasingammedda, Adhikarigama, Agalakumbura, Agalawa ...


References


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* Populated places in Central Province, Sri Lanka {{CentralLK-geo-stub