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The City of Kandy was originally known as Senkadagalapura and named after a hermit who lived there. The city lies at an altitude of 488.6 meters (1629 ft) above sea level at the center of the island. It is surrounded by ranges of mountains and the island's longest river the Mahaveliganga, and forests which have now been cleared for agricultural pursuits and human habitation.
        Due to its geographical location and original natural fortification with thick forests the kingdom survived the onslaught of the invasions by the Portuguese, the Dutch and the early English and finally succumbed to the latter when the Kandyan Chieftains ceded the Kingdom to them due to their differences with the king who was a foreigner from South India and had become very unpopular with the ruling nobility.
       'Kandy' the current name for the city is derived from the original Sinhala descriptive name 'Kanda Uda Pasrata' or the 'five countries in the mountains'. As 'Kanda' means mountain in Sinhala the language of the Sinhalese people. The first foreign invaders, the Portuguese called it 'Candea' which later evolved into 'Kandy' under the English. This usage continues up to modern times even though in Sinhala it is 'Maha Nuvara' which means 'the great city'.

History records that King Senasammatha Vikramabahu (circa 1473-1511) founded this kingdom on the mountains and King Vimaladharmasuriya I (circa 1592-1604) is regarded by some historians as the second founder or reviver of the Kandyan Kingdom. The last dynasty to rule the Kingdom was the Vaduga Nayakkars of South India who succeeded the Kingdom against existing custom from King Sri Veera Parakrama Narendrasimha the last Sinhala king who had no children and bequeathed the kingdom to his Queen's brother a Vaduga, thereafter they continued this practice of succession up to king Sri Vikrama Rajasimha who was deposed and replaced by the English Windsor dynasty by the Chieftains in the name of the people in 1815.
The Kandyan Kingdom saw the last resurgence of Sinhala literature, art and architecture in Sri Lanka and became the repository of Sinhala culture and the Buddhist religion; evidence of these are extant even to this day. In 1948 Sri Lanka gained independence from the British Crown and is now a people's democratic republic with an elected executive head of state and a parliament. Kandy is now the second most important city where foreign dignitaries come to pay their respect to the famous 'tooth' relic at the 'Sri Dalada Maligava' , the palace of the sacred 'tooth' relic.