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Yemeni Jewish traders used to visit Sri Lanka for trade. In the 10th century, Abu Zeid al Hasan, an Arab Muslim traveller from Siraf, Persia, stated that there were "a great number of Jews" in Serendib, as Sri Lanka was known to the Arabs. [1] It has also been said that Jewish links with Sri Lanka could go back thousands of years.
At the 2001 census, 114 people of Jewish faith were recorded as living in Sunderland, a vanishingly small percentage. There was no Jewish community before 1750, though subsequently a number of Jewish merchants from across the UK and Europe settled in Sunderland. The Sunderland Synagogue on Ryhope Road (opened in 1928) closed at the end of March ...
All data below, are from the Berman Jewish DataBank at Stanford University in the World Jewish Population (2020) report coordinated by Sergio DellaPergola at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Jewish DataBank figures are primarily based on national censuses combined with trend analysis.
Sri Lanka Cement Corporation; Sri Lanka Export Credit Insurance Corporation; Sri Lanka Handicrafts Board; Sri Lanka Land Reclamation & Development Corporation; Sri Lanka Ports Authority; Sri Lanka Railway Authority; Sri Lanka Rubber Manufacturing Export Co. Ltd; Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation; Sri Lanka State Plantations Corporation; Sri ...
Sri Lankan people of Jewish descent (1 C) I. Israel–Sri Lanka relations (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Jews and Judaism in Sri Lanka"
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Sri Lanka's population is aging faster than any other nation in South Asia and has the fifth highest rapidly growing population of older people in Asia after China, Thailand, South Korea and Japan. [16] [17] [18] In 2015, Sri Lanka's population aged over 60 was 13.9%, by 2030 this will increase to 21% and by 2050 this number will reach 27.4%.
Lobley Hill and Bensham is a local council ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. This ward covers an area of around 1.5 square miles (3.9 km 2), [11] and has a population of 10,638. [12] As of September 2020, the ward is served by three councillors: Catherine Donovan, Eileen McMaster and Kevin Dodds. [13]