Polonnaruwa - royal ancient city

Polonnaruwa was the 2nd capital of sri lanka when Anuradhapura was the main city of sri lanka, plonnaruwa was develop by the king s as it had an atmosphere which was suitable for paddy cultivation under these Agricultural purposes’ certain kings made certain lakes at polonnaruwa .king wasaba 67-111 AD made the lake Elahra,king Datusena 274-301 made minnarya, and kuddulla lakes king upatissa the 1st AD 365- 406 made Thopawewa, king Agaboddhi 2nd made Gerithale lake further polonnarwa was located in very safe area.

During 10-11AD there were lot of clashes between soli and pandaya, The Victorian soli came to sri lanka conquered Anuradhapura they sifted their capital to polonnaruwa and ruled at polonnaruwa for period of 70 years as a result the Agriculture completely collapsed at polonnaruwa.

King vejayabahu defected that soli and brought the country under one flag, he started the to rebuild the lakes which were destroyed by the soli The Great maha parakkramabahu continued what vijayaahu and brought sri lanka to the top where agriculture was concerned .then Nissanka malla continued the Development .but unfortunately the other kings who came after him were weaken and they could not continue what the earlier kings were doing slowly but steadily the jungle tide swept over the kingdom and when the British who were then rulers established the Department of Agriculture and started the renovate the old tanks and every think which were supported by central cultural Department and polonnaruwa is named world Heritegical site.