Brief information about the Jaffna
It is the headquarters of the Jaffna District situated on a peninsula of the same name.
With a population of 88,138 at 2012, Jaffna is Sri Lanka's 12th most populous city. Jaffna is approximately six miles (9.7 kilometres) from Kandarodai which served as an emporium from the Jaffna peninsula from classical antiquity. Jaffna's suburb Nallur, served as the funding of this four-century-long medieval Jaffna Kingdom.
It was Sri Lanka's second city after Colombo. The 1980s insurgent uprising led to military job, expulsion of part of the population, and damage. Whilst government and private sector improvement started taking place since the end of civil war in 2009, refugees and internally displaced people started returning to homes.
Historically, Jaffna has become a contested city. It was made to a colonial port city during the occupation of the Jaffna peninsula at 1619, who dropped it only to reduce it to the British in 1796. During the civil war, the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) inhabited Jaffna in 1986.
The Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) temporarily occupied the city in 1987. The LTTE inhabited the city from 1989 until 1995, when the Sri Lankan Army regained control. Nearly all the town 's inhabitants are Sri Lankan Tamils using a substantial variety of other cultural groups, Indian Tamils and Sri Lankan Moors within the city prior to the war.
Most Sri Lankan Tamils are Hindus followed Muslims by Christians and a small Buddhist minority. The city is home to a number of educational institutions created during the post-colonial and colonial period. Additionally, it has a number of commercial associations, banks minor units, hotels and other government institutions.
It is home to many historic sites like the Jaffna fort which was rebuilt during the Dutch period along with the favorite Jaffna library that rebuilt and was burned down.