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  2. List of prime ministers of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    In 1972, the country was renamed as the Free, Sovereign and Independent Republic of Sri Lanka, and the position was known as the prime minister of Sri Lanka from then onwards. The prime minister also held the unified Ministry of External Affairs and Defence until 1977, when the government of J. R. Jayewardene split the ministry into two ...

  3. Sri Lanka–United Kingdom relations - Wikipedia

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    There were about 129,076 Sri Lankan-born residents in the United Kingdom according to the 2011 census. [20] The majority of Sri Lankan immigrants in the United Kingdom live in London, with an estimated population of 84,000 in 2011. [21] There is also a community of European descent in Sri Lanka called the Burghers. These are people descended ...

  4. Dominion of Ceylon - Wikipedia

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    This was partly because the Soviet Union believed that Ceylon was only nominally independent, and the British still exercised control over it because the white, educated elite had control of the government. [4] In 1949, with the concurrence of the leaders of the Sri Lankan Tamils, the UNP government disenfranchised the Indian Tamil plantation ...

  5. List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The first prime minister of the current United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland upon its creation in 1922 (when 26 Irish counties seceded and created the Irish Free State) was Andrew Bonar Law, [10] although the country was not renamed officially until 1927, when Stanley Baldwin was the serving prime minister.

  6. British Ceylon - Wikipedia

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    The British Ceylon period is the history of Sri Lanka between 1815 and 1948. It follows the fall of the Kandyan Kingdom into the hands of the British Empire. [ 6 ] It ended over 2300 years of Sinhalese monarchy rule on the island. [ 7 ]

  7. List of current prime ministers by date of assumption of office

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    Prime Minister of India: Parliamentary republic 26 May 2014 10 years, 277 days Gaston Browne: Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda: Constitutional monarchy 13 June 2014 10 years, 259 days Saara Kuugongelwa: Prime Minister of Namibia: Semi-presidential republic: 21 March 2015 9 years, 343 days Keith Rowley: Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

  8. List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by age

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    This is a list of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by age. This table can be sorted to display prime ministers of the United Kingdom by name, order of office, date of birth, age at appointment, length of retirement, or lifespan. Age at appointment is determined by the day a prime minister assumed office for the first time. Length of retirement is determined from the day a prime minister ...

  9. List of international prime ministerial trips made by Ranil ...

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    This is a list of prime ministerial trips made by Ranil Wickremesinghe, who served as the 10th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 9 January 2015 to 21 November 2019. In addition, Wickremesinghe was prime minister from 1993 to 1994, 2001 to 2004 and for a few months in 2022.