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The only evidence of a British postal service before 1815 is a "Colombo Post Free" handstamp used on a soldier's letter in 1809, when British Royal Artillery troops were engaged to subdue Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, the king of Kandy (1798–1815), whose inland territory had never been under the influence of the Dutch.
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 century, before control of the entire country passed to Britain in 1815.
Sri Lanka, [a] historically known as Ceylon, [b] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean , southwest of the Bay of Bengal , separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait .
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Postal museum is a Sri Lanka's national museum of post that located at the Postal Headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Firstly, the postal museum was functioned at the Central Telegraph Office during 1918–1925, and moved to General Post Office in 1994. Again, a national postal museum was opened on 6 July 2010. [1]
The Colombo Post is a Sri Lankan English-language weekly newspaper, published every Tuesday. External links. The Colombo Post Website This page was last edited on ...
Early inhabitants of Sri Lanka were probably ancestors of the Vedda people, [48] an indigenous people numbering approximately 2,500 living in modern-day Sri Lanka. The 19th-century Irish historian James Emerson Tennent theorized that Galle , a city in southern Sri Lanka, was the ancient seaport of Tarshish from which King Solomon is said to ...
Institute of Management of Sri Lanka: FIM(SL), MIM(SL), AMIIM(SL) Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing: FSLIM, MSLIM, CMSLIM, AMSLIM Armed Forces: Passed Staff College: psc Logistics Staff Course: lsc Sri Lanka Army: SLLI, SLAC, SLA, etc. Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force: SLAVF Sri Lanka Navy: SLN Sri Lanka Volunteer Naval Force: SLVNF Sri Lanka Air ...