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is Sri Lanka's country code. xx: represents the area code. (i.e. omitting the leading 0 used when calling inside Sri Lanka). y: represents the operator code. zzzzzz: represents the main telephone number of six digits.
The number of members and wards was increased to 23 in 1968. [1] Mayor of Jaffna Alfred Duraiappah was assassinated by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on 27 July 1975. [2] [3] [4] On 10 April 1985 the LTTE attacked Jaffna police station, located next to the town hall, causing serious damage to the town hall.
UTC+5:30 (Sri Lanka Standard Time) Kolonnawa Divisional Secretariat is a Divisional Secretariat of Colombo District , of Western Province , Sri Lanka . and it has following Grama Niladhari divisions
Town Image DS Division District Province Population Area [1] Density (/km 2) Co-ordinates; Conurbation (2012 est) [2] Municipality (2012 census) [3] km² mi²; Vaddukoddai ...
Ampara District is located in the south east of Sri Lanka in the Eastern Province.It has an area of 4,415 square kilometres (1,705 sq mi). [1] It is bounded by Batticaloa and Polonnaruwa districts from north, Indian Ocean from east, Hambantota District from south, Badulla and Matale districts from northwest and by the Monaragala District from west and southeast.
In the early 18th century, about half of the slaves in the Cape were from India and Sri Lanka. In 1677, 93 indentured people from Thootukudi (a coastal town in the southern state of Tamil Nadu) were made to go the Cape while in 1712, 36 indentured people from Sri Lanka were made to do to South Africa by the Dutch/British oppressors and 80 in 1719.
Kandy District (Sinhala: මහනුවර දිස්ත්රික්කය, Tamil: கண்டி மாவட்டம்) is a district of the Central Province of Sri Lanka. [2] Its area is 1,940 km 2 (750 sq mi).
The annual updating of the electoral register in Sri Lanka is done by house-to-house enumeration. The civil war prevented house-to-house enumeration from taking place in most of the Northern Province from the mid-1980s onwards. For these areas the Department of Elections instead took the previous year's register and added anyone who had since ...