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The most recent site, the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka, was listed in 2010. The Central Highlands and the Sinharaja Forest Reserve are natural sites, the other six are cultural. In addition, Sri Lanka has four sites on its tentative list. The country served as a member of the World Heritage Committee in the years 1983–1989. [3]
The researcher into genealogy in Sri Lanka (as in the rest of the Indian subcontinent) faces a significant problem due to the lack of reliable source material.Unlike in the West, where there has been a long tradition of documenting genealogical data (i.e.: births, marriages and deaths) from very early times, in Sri Lanka it is only after the advent of the Portuguese that such information was ...
World Heritage Sites in Sri Lanka (2 C, 10 P) This page was last edited on 21 August 2024, at 18:24 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Sri Lanka-China relations started as soon as the People's Republic of China was formed in 1949. The two countries signed an important Rubber-Rice Pact in 1952. [247] Sri Lanka played a vital role at the Asian–African Conference in 1955, which was an important step in the crystallisation of the NAM. [248]
Kandyan law is the customary law that originated in the Kingdom of Kandy, which is applicable to Sri Lankans who are Buddhist and from the former provinces of the Kandyan Kingdom before the 1815 Kandyan Convention. It is one of three customary laws which are still in use in Sri Lanka. The other two customary laws are the Thesavalamai and the ...
Sri Lanka's Cultural triangle is situated in the centre of the island and covers an area which includes the World Heritage cultural sites of the Sacred City of Anuradhapura, the Ancient City of Polonnaruwa, the Ancient City of Sigiriya, the Ancient City of Dambulla and the Sacred City of Kandy. Due to the constructions and associated historical ...
In the 2nd or 3rd century, the stupa was converted to a Vatadage style, a unique architectural feature of ancient Sri Lanka. Most of the pillars from the original wooden roof still stand today.The Sela Cetiya is the first relic encountered upon reaching the upper terrace of the Mihintale Complex, after ascending the 1,840 steps of the ancient ...
العربية; Aragonés; অসমীয়া; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская ...