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The Port of Colombo 1860–1939, K. Dharmasena, 1980 (Lake House, Colombo) Decolonizing Ceylon: Colonialism, Nationalism and the Politics of Space in Sri Lanka, by Nihal Perera, 1999 (Oxford University Press) the Essential guide for Colombo and its region, Philippe Fabry, Negombo, Viator Publications, 2011, 175 p., ISBN 978-955-8736-09-8
The old Sri Lankan Parliament building, near the Galle Face Green in Colombo. It now serves as the Presidential Secretariat's headquarters. Sri Lanka is a democratic republic and a unitary state which is governed by a semi-presidential system. [197] Sri Lanka is the oldest democracy in Asia. [198]
Capital of Sri Lanka. The current legislative capital of Sri Lanka is Sri Jayawardhapura Kotte and the executive and judicial capital is Colombo. Over the course of the island's history, the national capital has been in several locations other than [1] Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte. [1]
Geography of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka, formerly called Ceylon, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, southeast of the Indian subcontinent, in a strategic location near major sea lanes. [1] The nation has a total area of 65,610 square kilometres (25,330 sq mi), with 64,630 square kilometres (24,950 sq mi) of land and 980 square kilometres (380 sq ...
Provinces (Sinhala: පළාත, romanized: Paḷāta; Tamil: மாகாணம், romanized: Mākāṇam) are the first level administrative divisions of Sri Lanka. Currently, Sri Lanka is divided into 9 provinces. Each province is further divided into districts, which are further divided into divisional secretariats. The provinces were ...
The divisions between Asia and Europe occur at the Ural Mountains, Ural River, and Caspian Sea in the east, the Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea, Bosporus Sea of Marmara, Dardanelles and the Aegean Sea in the south. Azerbaijan, Georgia, Greece, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkey all have territory in both Asia and Europe.
The Colombo Plan is a regional intergovernmental organization that began operations on 1 July 1951. The organization was conceived at an international conference, The Commonwealth Conference on Foreign Affairs held in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in January 1950, and was attended by the finance ministers of Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ceylon, Pakistan and New Zealand, and the ...
There is an embassy for the state of Palestine in Colombo. ... Contemporary South Asia 17.2 (2009): 175-191. Peebles, Patrick. The History of Sri Lanka (Greenwood, 2005)