Kattankudy

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Kattankudy er en kystby i Sri Lanka's Østprovinsen, beliggende nær Batticaloa. Den er kendt for sin overvejende muslimske befolkning, hvor over 98% af beboerne identificerer sig som srilankanske moorer. Byen strækker sig over cirka 2,56 kvadratkilometer land og 1,33 kvadratkilometer indlands vandveje, hvilket gør den til et af de mest tæt befolkede områder i landet. Den lokale økonomi trives med handel, småindustrier og fiskeri, hvilket afspejler samfundets entreprenante ånd....

I de senere år har Kattankudy opnået opmærksomhed for sine arkitektoniske vartegn, især en kopi af Jerusalems Klippekuppel. Denne tre-etagers moské, indviet i december 2022, har en gylden kuppel og en blå ottekantet base, hvilket tiltrækker besøgende og styrker den lokale halal-turisme. Byen huser også Kattankudy-museet, som er dedikeret til at bevare og vise islamsk kulturarv og historie i regionen.

Kattankudy har stået over for betydelige udfordringer i sin historie. Den 3. august 1990 var byen stedet for et tragisk massakre, hvor over 147 muslimske tilbedere blev dræbt under aftenbønnen. Denne begivenhed forbliver et af de mørkeste kapitler i Sri Lankas borgerkrig. Derudover havde tsunamien i Det Indiske Ocean i 2004 en ødelæggende indvirkning på byen, hvilket resulterede i tabet af over 100 liv og omfattende ejendomsskader.

På trods af disse modgang har Kattankudy vist stor modstandsdygtighed og engagement i fremgang. Initiativer som Green City Master Plan, udviklet i samarbejde med FN's udviklingsprogram, har til formål at fremme bæredygtig byudvikling. Disse bestræbelser fokuserer på at forbedre offentlige tjenester, miljøbevarelse og samfundets trivsel, og positionerer Kattankudy som et forbillede for inklusiv og bæredygtig vækst i regionen.

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Batticaloa District

Batticaloa is a city in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. Batticaloa is in the eastern coast of Sri Lanka on a flat coastal plain boarded by the Indian Ocean in the east occupies the central part of the eastern Sri Lanka. Batticaloa is on the East coast, 314 km from Colombo. The population of 515,707 consists mainly of Tamils, Moors, Sinhalese, Euro-Asian Burghers (specifically Portuguese Burghers and Dutch Burghers) and indigenous Vedda population.

Rice and coconuts are the two staples of the district, and steamers trading round the island call regularly at the port. The lagoon is famous for its ""singing fish,"" supposed to be shell-fish which give forth musical notes. The district has a remnant of Veddahs or wild men of the wood. The city has four main divisions. Pullianthivu: Seat of many government department and offices, schools, banks religious places, General Hospital, Weber Stadium and Shops. Nowadays many NGO offices including ICRC, UN, UNICEF, WORLD VISION etc.are located also.

Koddamunai: Schools, Banks, Sri Lanka Telecom regional office for East, Shops and many government offices are located. Two bridges called Perya Palam and Puthuppalam are connect Pulianthivu Island with Koddaminai land mass. Kallady: Here there are many Government buildings and private industries, schools, hospitals and Eastern University Medical Faculty. Kallady Lady Manning Bridge (the longest bridge in Sri Lanka) connects Kallady and Arasay.

Eastern Province

The Eastern Province is one of the 9 provinces of Sri Lanka. The provinces have existed since the 19th century but they didn't have any legal status until 1987 when the 13th Amendment to the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka established provincial councils. Between 1988 and 2006 the province was temporarily merged with the Northern Province to form the North-East Province. The capital of the province is Trincomalee. The Eastern province's population was 1,460,939 in 2007. The province is the most diverse in Sri Lanka, both ethnically and religiously.

Eastern province has an area of 9,996 square kilometers (3,859.5 sq mi).The province is surrounded by the Northern Province to the north, the Bay of Bengal to the east, the Southern Province to the south, and the Uva, Central and North Central provinces to the west. The province's coast is dominated by lagoons, the largest being Batticaloa lagoon, Kokkilai lagoon, Upaar Lagoon and Ullackalie Lagoon.

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