miejsca: History of Sri Lanka

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The history of Sri Lanka covers Sri Lanka and its surrounding regions of South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean. Prehistoric Sri Lanka goes back 125,000 years and possibly even as far back as 500,000 years. The earliest humans found in Sri Lanka date to Prehistoric times about 35,000 years ago. Little is known about the history before the Indo-Aryan Settlement in the 6th century BC. The earliest documents of the settlement on the Island and its early history are found in the national chronicles of the Mahāvamsa, Dipavamsa, and the Culavamsa. According to the Mahāvamsa, a chronicle written in Pāḷi, the preceding inhabitants of Sri Lanka were said to be Yakkhas and Nagas. Sinhalese h…

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Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It is located in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, and is separated from India by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. Sri Lanka shares a maritime border with the Maldives to the southwest and India to the northwest, and lies across the Bay of Bengal from Bangladesh and Myanmar to the northeast and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India to the east. Its executive and judicial capital is Colombo, which is also its largest city and the political, financial and cultural centre of the country; neighboring Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the legisl…

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The development of Venereology in Sri Lanka in the last fifteen years

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The Timeline of Sri Lankan history outlines the major political, territorial, socio-economic, and cultural developments of Sri Lanka and its predecessor states from prehistory through to the modern era. Spanning over five hundred thousand years, the chronological record documents the island's evolution from early human settlement and protohistoric Iron Age societies through to the arrival of Indo-Aryan migrants and the establishment of the first organised state in the 6th century BCE through to the present day.

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Morphology and Morphometry of prehistoric skeletal remains found in Potana, Sigiriya, Sri Lanka. This study explores morphology, morphometry of prehistoric skeletal remains found at Potana, Sigiriya, Sri Lanka that has been radio carbon dated as 4,000 years before present (YBP). The gender, age, stature, cause of death, health status, food habits and the way of life of Potana population have been explored by following the methods described in slandered text. One skeleton unearthed from context no 10 of the excavation presently displayed at National Museum, Colombo is of female sex and age at death is around 25-35 years. The calculated stature of the individual is 170 cm. Other skeleton foun…

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The prehistory of Sri Lanka covers the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and early Iron Age of the country until the Pre Anuradhapura period in 543 BC. There is evidence of Paleolithic (Homo erectus) people in Sri Lanka from about 300,000 BP and possibly even as early as 500,000 BP. There is strong evidence of prehistoric settlements in Sri Lanka by about 125,000 BP. Evidence of a transition between the Mesolithic and the Iron Age is scant. Fluctuations in sea level led to Sri Lanka being linked to the Indian subcontinent from time to time over the past million years. The last such link occurred about 5000 BC.