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    The Sri Lankan Civil War (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සිවිල් යුද්ධය, romanized: śrī laṁkāvē sivil yuddhaya; Tamil: இலங்கை உள்நாட்டுப் போர், romanized: Ilaṅkai...
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    this article correctly. Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in...
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    Sri Lanka Police (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොලීසිය, romanized: Shrī Lanka Polīsiya; Tamil: இலங்கை காவல், romanized: Ilaṅkai Kāval) is the civilian national...
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    Duraiappah in revenge for the 1974 Tamil conference incident. The LTTE was subsequently founded in 1976 as a reaction to the Sri Lankan Constitution of 1972 which...
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    මහාවංස (Mahāvaṃsa)) is the meticulously kept historical chronicle of Sri Lanka until the period of Mahasena of Anuradhapura. It was written in the style...
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    1951) is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the seventh President of Sri Lanka from 9 January 2015 to 18 November 2019. Sirisena is Sri Lanka's first president...
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    The history of Sri Lanka from 1948 to the present is marked by the independence of the country through to Dominion and becoming a Republic. Currently...
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    high commissioner to the Maldives since 1974. The high commissioner since July 2022 is Paul Stephens. Sri Lanka and Australia have enjoyed official diplomatic...
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    regular- or volunteer serviceperson is a member of the Sri Lanka Army, Sri Lanka Navy and the Sri Lanka Air Force. Together with military badges, such awards...
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  • Geoffrey Bawa (category Sri Lankan Moors)
    Deshamanya Geoffrey Manning Bawa, FRIBA (23 July 1919 – 27 May 2003) was a Sri Lankan architect. He was among the most influential Asian architects of his generation...
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    Tamil Eelam (category Separatism in Sri Lanka)
    independent state that many Tamils in Sri Lanka and the Eelam Tamil diaspora aspire to create in the north and east of Sri Lanka. Large sections of the North-East...
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    "Sri Lanka attacks: Death toll soars to 290". BBC. 22 April 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2019. [verification needed] "156 Dead In Blasts At Two Sri Lanka Churches...
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    Songkran (category Festivals in Sri Lanka)
    across South and Southeast Asia in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, parts of northeast India, parts of Vietnam and Xishuangbanna...
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    Freddie Silva (category 20th-century Sri Lankan male singers)
    was a Sri Lankan film actor, and playback singer, who appeared from 1963 until 2001. Freddie was known for being one of the most popular Sri Lankan comedians...
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  • Charitha Pattiaratchi (category Sri Lankan emigrants to Australia)
    | Engineers Australia". www.engineersaustralia.org.au. Retrieved 2020-06-25. "Eminent Sri Lankan scientist award". the UWA Profiles and Research Repository...
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    Mahanama College (category National schools in Sri Lanka)
    Mahanama College is a Sinhala Buddhist boys school in Colombo, Sri Lanka which was established in 1954. As a public, national school, it is controlled...
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  • maritime community, mainly living in the state of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and in Sri Lanka. Early Pandyas were believed to be Parathavars, due to several similarities...
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    Wolf Dittus (category German emigrants to Sri Lanka)
    (born 1 June 1943) is a primatologist and behavioral ecologist based in Sri Lanka. Born in Berlin, Germany, and brought up in the rural Black Forest (German:...
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  • Andrew De Silva (category Australian people of Sri Lankan descent)
    $250,000. De Silva was born in Melbourne into a family originally from Sri Lanka. Andrew De Silva formed CDB with Brad Pinto and Gary Pinto. Between 1991...
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    help Sri Lankans who were adversely affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. His charity the Shane Warne Foundation donated AU$20,000...
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    These were used extensively by the Sri Lanka Armoured Corps in the 1980s in the early stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War, with its 76 mm gun being effective...
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    Overview of sports in India "India topple Sri Lanka to become No. 1 team in ICC T20 rankings". News 18. 2 April 1974. Archived from the original on 9 January...
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  • Dayasiri Jayasekara (category Sports ministers of Sri Lanka)
    J. P. Dayasiri Padma Kumara Jayasekara (born 12 June 1969) is a Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament. He is the District Leader of the SLFP for...
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    Tharupathi Munasinghe (category Sri Lankan musicians)
    Tharupathi Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan composer, music director, sound ethnographer, and academic. He had contributed to various artistic and academic domains...
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    Sharma of India broke it on 13 November 2014. He scored a 264 runs against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens in Kolkata; this remains the highest individual score...
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    played that year on top of his England Lions cricket team debut against Sri Lanka A. At Scarborough in August, he scored his maiden Championship hundred...
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    record, also held by two Sri Lankans.[32] The Sri Lankan captain also shared a stand of 117 with Tillakaratne Dilshan (45). Sri Lanka declared on the fall...
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  • This tradition began to establish itself in Sri Lanka from the 3rd century BCE onwards. It was in Sri Lanka that the Pāli Canon was written down and the...
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    Saman Tilakasiri (category Sri Lankan poets)
    Saman Tilakasiri (11 August 1928 – 5 January 2000) was a Sri Lankan poet, journalist and an award-winning author. He was a Senior Editor with "Lankadeepa"...
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  • Australian selection. He made his ODI debut on 14 April 1994 against Sri Lanka in the 1994 Austral-Asia Cup atv Sharjah and was not required to bat as...
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