Attribution: World Monuments Fund Batticaloa Sri Lanka Key Dates A Buddhist stupa and shatra from the Ruhuna Kingdom date back to the 1st Century BC. The Dutch developed a fort there in 1628. It was damaged in the 2004 tsunami. The Fort of Batticaloa is on a small island on the east coast of Sri Lanka, 69 miles south by south east of Trincomalee. Its local name is Mada Kalapuwa, which means “muddy lagoon” in Sinhala, after the inland lagoon over which it looks. Although the site gets its name from a Dutch settlement built there in 1628, it has…