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  2. An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon - Wikipedia

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    t. e. An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon together With somewhat Concerning Severall Remarkable passages of my life that hath hapned since my Deliverance out of Captivity is a book written by the English trader and sailor Robert Knox in 1681. It describes his experiences some years earlier in the Kingdom of Kandy, on the island today ...

  3. Gamperaliya (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Gamperaliya (The Transformation of a Village) is a novel written by Sri Lankan writer Martin Wickremasinghe [2] and first published in 1944. Wickremasinghe subsequently wrote Kaliyugaya and Yuganthaya, as a trilogy encompassing three generation of the same family and the changing society, culture and economic environment of Sri Lanka between the early and mid 20th century.

  4. Sigiriya - Wikipedia

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    This site may have been important in the competition between the Mahayana and Theravada Buddhist traditions in ancient Sri Lanka. In Professor Senarath Paranavithana's book The Story of Sigiri, King Dathusena is said to have taken the advice of the Persian Nestorian Priest Maga Brahmana on building his palace on Sigirya. According to ...

  5. Colombo International Book Fair - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka Book Publishers’ Association. The Colombo International Book Fair is an annual trade fair for books usually held in mid-September at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall in Colombo, Sri Lanka. [1] Organized by the Sri Lankan Book Publishers’ Association, it is the largest book exhibition and fair in the country. [2]

  6. History of Sri Lanka (1948–present) - Wikipedia

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    Dominion status followed on 4 February 1948 with military treaties with Britain, as the upper ranks of the armed forces were initially British, and British air and sea bases remained intact. This was later raised to independence itself and Senanayake became the first Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. In 1949, with the concurrence of the leaders of ...

  7. List of Sri Lankan mobsters - Wikipedia

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    1978–1990. Gonawala Sunil is one of the worst earliest criminal gang leaders in Sri Lankan underworld. He allegedly had been abused by old men connected with the UNP government at that time. He was involved in the massacre of 53 prisoners at Welikada Prison in 1983 and raping a 14-year-old girl in 1982.

  8. Category:Novels set in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Yuganthaya. Categories: Novels set in Asia by country. Sri Lanka in fiction. Books about Sri Lanka. Novels set in the Indian Ocean. Novels by country of setting. Novels by island country of setting. Works set in Sri Lanka.

  9. Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka's population, (1871–2001) Sri Lanka has roughly 22,156,000 people and an annual population growth rate of 0.5%. The birth rate is 13.8 births per 1,000 people, and the death rate is 6.0 deaths per 1,000 people. [ 266] Population density is highest in western Sri Lanka, especially in and around the capital.

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