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This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon . Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about 31 km off the southern coast of India. After over two thousand years of rule by local kingdoms, parts of Sri Lanka were colonized by Portugal and the Netherlands beginning in the 16th ...
This is a list of people on the postage stamps of Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon. The list is complete through 1980. Ceylon (through 1972) Victoria of the United Kingdom (1857) Edward VII of the United Kingdom (1903) George V of the United Kingdom (1912) George VI of the United Kingdom (1937) D. S. Senanayake, prime minister (1949, 1966, 1968)
Pages in category "Postal system of Sri Lanka" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Postage stamps and postal history of Sri Lanka;
The Department of Posts, functioning under the brand name Sri Lanka Post ( Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා තැපැල් Shri Lanka Tæpæl ), is a government operated postal system in Sri Lanka. The postal headquarters is the General Post Office which is located in Colombo. The department itself comes under the purview of the ...
Dull Rose. The Dull Rose is a Ceylonese (modern-day Sri Lanka) postage stamp that is considered to be the rarest and most valuable stamp issued in the country. [1] [2] 7000 stamps were issued on 23 April 1859, bearing a face value of four pence. [2] [3] Three others, the 8 pence (chocolate brown), 1 shilling & 9 pence (green), and 2 shilling ...
Postage stamps and postal history of Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka Post This page was last edited on 23 July 2022, at 23:35 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Islam by country. Islam is the third largest religion in Sri Lanka, with about 9.7 percent of the total population following the religion. [3] [a] About 1.9 million Sri Lankans adhere to Islam as per the Sri Lanka census of 2012. [4] [3] The majority of Muslims in Sri Lanka are concentrated in the Eastern Province of the island.
Some of the postal history is related in the article on Sri Lanka Post. Perhaps that should be moved here? Fconaway ( talk) 23:30, 7 April 2011 (UTC) Reply. [ reply] Maybe copying the postal history from the article on Sri Lanka Post would be better. But the 'Sri Lanka Post' article should have a part called postal history.