Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

The first people to inhabit Sri Lanka, called Ceylon until 1972, were tribal people from India called the Veddahs. Vejaya, a prince from northern India, came, with other founders of the Sinhalese culture, to Sri Lanka in early 400's B.C., and encouraged the first major immigration movement there. The center of this Sinhalese civilization, that lasted from 200 B.C. until A.D. 993, was Anuradhapura, a...

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