• Thumbnail for Monarchy of Ceylon (1948–1972)
    Ceylon functioned as an independent constitutional monarchy in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign and head of state of the country. Ceylon shared...
    98 KB (11,015 words) - 13:24, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dominion of Ceylon
    Ceylon was an independent country in the Commonwealth of Nations from 1948 to 1972, that shared a monarch with other dominions of the Commonwealth. In...
    22 KB (1,838 words) - 11:46, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist)
    The Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist) is a political party in Sri Lanka. The party surged in 1964 following a split in the Ceylon Communist Party. Initially...
    14 KB (1,198 words) - 17:25, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cinnamon
    verum (alternatively C. zeylanicum), known as "Ceylon cinnamon" after its origins in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), is considered to be "true cinnamon", but...
    48 KB (5,321 words) - 15:32, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lanka Sama Samaja Party
    Sri Lanka. It was the first political party in Sri Lanka (then British Ceylon), having been founded in 1935 by Leslie Goonewardene, N.M. Perera, Colvin...
    106 KB (9,809 words) - 08:36, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Sri Lanka
    Ceylon and Hollanders 1658–1796. (American Ceylon Mission Press, 1918). Pieris, Paulus Edward, Ceylon and the Portuguese 1505–1658. (American Ceylon Mission...
    84 KB (10,212 words) - 06:14, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fiji-class cruiser
    built to a slightly modified design and were sometimes also called the Ceylon class. They were built to the limitations that the 1936 Second London Naval...
    25 KB (2,680 words) - 16:14, 17 November 2024
  • The Ceylon Championships later known as the Sri Lankan Championships (1972–76) was a men's and women's national tennis tournament held at the Hill Club...
    15 KB (334 words) - 19:47, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump
    2.12 metres. All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10) Key o = Height cleared x = Height failed – = Height passed r  = Retired SB = Season's...
    15 KB (650 words) - 17:32, 9 August 2024
  • indicate past tense Ceylon Creole Dutch Sri Lanka Kaffir people Portuguese period in Ceylon Burgher people Dutch period in Ceylon Indo-Portuguese (Sri...
    26 KB (2,921 words) - 20:04, 19 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bolshevik–Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burma
    Bolshevik–Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burma (BLPI) was a revolutionary Trotskyist party which campaigned for independence and socialism in South...
    28 KB (2,698 words) - 14:31, 6 November 2024
  • Stock Exchange (CSE) has 284 listings. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z "Listed Company Directory". cse.lk. Colomobo Stock Exchange...
    22 KB (51 words) - 15:19, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Moors
    North Africa. During the colonial era, the Portuguese introduced the names "Ceylon Moors" and "Indian Moors" in South Asia and Sri Lanka, now official ethnic...
    58 KB (6,692 words) - 16:43, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2nd State Council of Ceylon
    The 2nd State Council of Ceylon was a meeting of the State Council of Ceylon, with the membership determined by the results of the 1936 state council...
    37 KB (796 words) - 06:00, 28 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Miss International 2024
    25, 2024 – via Instagram. Nawzer, Shafiya (May 10, 2024). "Maya Dmitri". Ceylon Today. Retrieved June 4, 2024. Scanlan, Sean (December 11, 2023). "Miss...
    32 KB (1,617 words) - 13:26, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sri Lanka grey hornbill
    Chordata Class: Aves Order: Bucerotiformes Family: Bucerotidae Genus: Ocyceros Species: O. gingalensis Binomial name Ocyceros gingalensis (Shaw, 1812)...
    3 KB (281 words) - 16:49, 28 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kallima philarchus
    Kallima philarchus, the Ceylon blue oakleaf, is a nymphalid butterfly found in Sri Lanka. With wings closed, it closely resembles a dry leaf with dark...
    1 KB (56 words) - 00:47, 2 May 2024
  • P. E. P. (1938). "Some fossil animals from Ceylon, Part II". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (Ceylon Branch). 34 (91): 231–239. JSTOR 45385414....
    3 KB (205 words) - 11:08, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ceylon snakehead
    The Ceylon snakehead (Channa orientalis) is a species of snakehead found in freshwater habitats, typically shaded streams, in southwestern Sri Lanka (although...
    4 KB (422 words) - 19:59, 29 April 2022
  • Thumbnail for Sri Lanka bay owl
    a. ripleyi Hussain & Reza Khan, 1978 - Western Ghats P. a. assimilis A. O. Hume, 1877 – Central & southern Sri Lanka The Indian subspecies is found...
    7 KB (587 words) - 02:18, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ceylon tree nymph
    The Ceylon tree nymph (Idea iasonia) is a species of nymphalid butterfly in the subfamily Danainae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. First described by John...
    6 KB (733 words) - 15:52, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Legislative Council of Ceylon
    Legislative Council of Ceylon was the legislative body of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) established in 1833, along with the Executive Council of Ceylon, on the recommendations...
    19 KB (1,018 words) - 02:20, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Acherontia styx
    Acherontia styx (category Taxa named by John O. Westwood)
    medusa underside Caterpillar In, The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I, the species is described as follows. Head brown;...
    7 KB (742 words) - 17:05, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
    S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (category Members of the 1st Parliament of Ceylon)
    Ceylonese statesman who served as the fourth Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), serving from 1956 until his assassination. The founder...
    41 KB (4,066 words) - 20:48, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1951 Asian Games
    which four countries—Afghanistan, British India, Palestine Mandate and Ceylon—participated. The decision was made to hold these Games once in four years...
    43 KB (3,826 words) - 06:46, 10 November 2024
  • popular and had millions of listeners. Binaca Geetmala was broadcast on Radio Ceylon from 1952 to 1988 and then shifted to the Vividh Bharati Service of All...
    15 KB (736 words) - 18:17, 10 November 2024
  • African-American composer William Francis Dawson (died 1829), road builder in British Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka William Henderson Dawson (died 1879), Tyneside poet...
    2 KB (296 words) - 04:28, 29 September 2024
  • N. M. Perera (category Alumni of the Ceylon University College)
    of India, Ceylon and Burma (BLPI) in that country's independence struggle. He was arrested in Bombay in July 1943 and was deported to Ceylon where he was...
    21 KB (2,041 words) - 05:47, 25 July 2024
  • G. G. Ponnambalam (category All Ceylon Tamil Congress politicians)
    9 February 1977) was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, politician and cabinet minister. He was the founder and leader of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC), the...
    26 KB (1,885 words) - 09:10, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ceylon logsucker
    Garra ceylonensis (the stone sucker or Ceylon logsucker[citation needed]) is a species of ray-finned fish in the cyprinid family. It is endemic to rivers...
    3 KB (357 words) - 22:31, 14 February 2024