Diyatalawa
Sign in to saveDiyatalawa (; ; literally “the watered plain”) is a town and former garrison settlement in the central highlands of Sri Lanka, in Badulla District of Uva Province. The town is associated with long-standing military training establishments, including the Sri Lanka Military Academy and the Sri Lanka Air Force Combat Training School at Diyatalawa.
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Diyatalawa (; ; literally “the watered plain”) is a town and former garrison settlement in the central highlands of Sri Lanka, in Badulla District of Uva Province. The town is associated with long-standing military training establishments, including the Sri Lanka Military Academy and the Sri Lanka Air Force Combat Training School at Diyatalawa.
==History== ===British period and the Boer War camp=== Available published accounts record that the British selected Diyatalawa as a military training and garrison area in the late 19th century (commonly dated to around 1885). During the Second Boer War, a prisoner camp was established at Diyatalawa by the British authorities on 8 August 1900 to hold Boer prisoners captured in South Africa.
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