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Stories Behind Names of Places in Sri Lanka: GALEWELA – By Dr. Nimal Sedera Source :  Sri Lankan Group of Radio 4EB is pleased to present its Newsletter “Dæhæna” for August 2022. I trust you are enjoying the article series I am writing to Dehena continuously for the last four year or more. I enjoy writing this series as it is so much fun to know the history of our country. Galewela is in the Central province, in the Matale District, and the Trincomalee A6 road cuts across Galewela. It is 141 Km away from Colombo. It is a well developed area with a population of over 70,000 people as per the last census of the country. Mostly Sinhala Budddhist people live here with a growing Muslim community of over 10,000. King Kashyapa not only built Sigiriya he developed the land around the rock palace. His supervision would have been ...