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    million and is home to several cultures, languages and ethnicities. The Sinhalese people form the majority of the population, followed by the Sri Lankan...
    254 KB (21,977 words) - 12:17, 13 October 2024
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    in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. It was the last capital of the Sinhalese monarchy from 1469 to 1818, under the Kingdom of Kandy. The city is situated...
    50 KB (4,692 words) - 10:53, 25 September 2024
  • the population of the Tamil community. The Sinhalese had been divided into up-country and low-country Sinhalese. The commissioners were four British parliamentarians...
    7 KB (1,015 words) - 18:00, 26 October 2023
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    History Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2023-02-19. Bandaranayake, Senake (1974). Sinhalese monastic architecture: the viháras of Anurádhapura. Brill. ISBN 9-0040-3992-9...
    337 KB (30,125 words) - 05:03, 14 October 2024
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    Malayalam, Mandarin, Marathi, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Sinhalese, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Telugu, Tamil, Tibetan, Ukrainian, Urdu, and...
    163 KB (13,520 words) - 07:29, 1 October 2024
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    The name beriberi was possibly borrowed in the 18th century from the Sinhalese phrase බැරි බැරි (bæri bæri, “I cannot, I cannot”), owing to the weakness...
    55 KB (6,109 words) - 07:37, 27 August 2024
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    Pakistani Americans, Bangladeshi Americans, and Sri Lankan Americans (see Sinhalese and Tamils) especially concentrated in the San Gabriel Valley (Covina...
    119 KB (9,274 words) - 10:58, 14 October 2024
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    War were defeated by the Kandyan Sinhalese forces. In 1815, the British fomented a revolt by the Kandyan Sinhalese aristocracy against the last Kandyan...
    43 KB (6,103 words) - 01:49, 18 September 2024
  • clothes, a few ornaments and a firm thanapatiya ("breast bandage"). In the Sinhalese poetic work Kaviyasekara, a father advises his married daughter as to...
    141 KB (13,800 words) - 15:03, 10 October 2024
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    most of them members of the Tamil minority, at the hands of the larger Sinhalese majority. The triggering event took place in the city of Jaffna, capital...
    64 KB (9,338 words) - 01:52, 23 August 2024
  • versus the Sri Lanka Board president's XI. India defeated Sri Lanka at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground by 6 wickets but the other three first-class games...
    215 KB (25,385 words) - 17:19, 8 September 2024
  • of Mulleriyawa Sitawaka forces defeat Portuguese near Colombo during Sinhalese–Portuguese War 1563 Battle of Lincoya Fortress 16 January - Mapuche capture...
    173 KB (253 words) - 18:38, 11 October 2024
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    mirror Indian examples of the 5th century or earlier. In Sri Lankan, among Sinhalese Buddhists, he is known as Gana deviyo, and revered along with Buddha,...
    96 KB (11,197 words) - 15:08, 13 October 2024
  • and the ancestors of the Sinhalese as having been entrusted to be its custodians. This has led to the widely held Sinhalese-Buddhist belief that the island...
    194 KB (22,369 words) - 05:49, 22 September 2024
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    votes in which it stood for secession. Over seven days mobs of mainly Sinhalese attacked Tamil targets, burning, looting and killing. Sikhs were targeted...
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  • Multiculturalism Pagan nationalism Buddhist nationalism 969 Movement Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism Christian nationalism Hindu nationalism Muslim nationalism...
    149 KB (7,292 words) - 18:13, 8 October 2024
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    ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 27 October 2023. "ODI Cricket - Winning after a Low Score in First Innings". www.howstat.com. Retrieved 23 October 2019. "England...
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    the town became the county seat and the location of the Peel County Courthouse which was built in 1865–66; a three-storey County jail was added at the...
    91 KB (7,453 words) - 11:47, 13 October 2024
  • Britain and Ireland Kingdom of Kandy British victory End of 2357 years of Sinhalese independence Irish Rebellion of 1798 (1798)  Kingdom of Ireland  Great...
    113 KB (2,789 words) - 17:05, 13 October 2024
  • specifically limited to Ewondo and Eton speakers. Due to their historical low status in India, the majority only speak Bengali. Due to France's long history...
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