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Lanka appears later and in parallel, between the 10th [28] and the 12th centuries CE. [3] The name Lanka, a Sanskrit word, comes from the Hindu text the Ramayana, where Lanka is the abode of King Ravana. The Ramayana Lanka began to be considered as the present-day Sri Lanka between the 10th [28] and the 12th centuries CE. [3]
The president of Sri Lanka is the elected head of state and the chief executive of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon). The president is a dominant political figure in the country. The office was created in 1972, as more of a ceremonial position. It was empowered with executive powers by the 1978 Constitution introduced by J. R. Jayewardene.
The following is a list of settlements in Sri Lanka with a population over 50,000. Cities. City Image DS Division District Province Population Area [1] Density
More than 90% of Sri Lanka's surface lies on Precambrian strata, some of it dating back 2 billion years. [6] The granulite facies rocks of the Highland Series (gneisses, sillimanite-graphite gneisses, quartzite, marbles, and some charnockites) make up most of the island and the amphibolite facies gneisses, granites, and granitic gneisses of the Vinjayan Series occur in the eastern and ...
Sri Lanka Army Sri Lanka Army Head Quarters 114 To manage eventualities pertaining to national security and disaster relief operations Sri Lanka Army: 115 National Air Defence Network Air Defence Command and Control Centre, SLAF Mirigama: 116 For the Air Defence Operation Centre (ADOC) to receive Air Defence alerts from the general public Sri ...
The Ceylon Civil Service, popularly known by its acronym CCS, was the premier civil service of the Government of Ceylon under British colonial rule and in the immediate post-independence period.
Historical population of Sri Lanka. This is a demography of the population of Sri Lanka including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the population, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. Sri Lanka is an island in the Indian Ocean, also called Ceylon and many other names. It is about ...
Adam's Peak is a 2,243 m (7,359 ft) tall conical sacred mountain located in central Sri Lanka. [1] [2] It is well known for the Sri Pada (Śrī Pāda ; Sinhala: ශ්රී පාද, 'sacred footprint'), a 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) rock formation near the summit whose name is also used for the mountain itself.