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  Central Province, Sri Lanka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Central Province of Sri Lanka consists primarily of mountainous terrain.
The province produces much of the famous Ceylon tea, planted by the British in the 1860's after a devastating disease killed all the coffee plantations in the province.
Though three successive European powers invaded Sri Lanka during the 16th to the 19th century, the Central Province maintained its independence until the early 19th century when the British finally managed to conqueror Kandy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Central_Province,_Sri_Lanka   (305 words)

  
 WWW Virtual Library:  Magnificent Wilpattu
Snakebite is also a very common accident in Sri Lanka which, with a population of 19 million, suffers hundreds of snakebite fatalities each year and has earned the dubious reputation of being the country with the highest annual snakebite death rate, per capita, in the world.
Here the ultimate aim is to produce a specific antivenom for Sri Lanka Russell’s viper bite from the venom of Sri Lankan Russell’s vipers, thereby increasing the efficiency of the available treatment and reducing the unpleasant side effects that resulted from large doses of Indian antivenom.
The Sri Lankan Russell’s viper (Daboia russelli russelli) is the snake at the centre of an epidemic.
www.lankalibrary.com /wlife/snakes4.htm   (2592 words)

  
 brihist
Sri Lanka (previously known as Ceylon) lies of the south-east of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Buddhism was introduced to Sri Lanka during the reign of King Devanampiya Tissa during the period 307-267 B.C. Trade relations between India and Sri Lanka are traced to the 3rd century B.C. Historians have not been able to pin-point the actual date of establishment of Tamil settlements in Sri Lanka.
Chandra Bhanu, the Malay King of Nakhon Sri Dhammarat in the Isthmus of Kra on the Malay Peninsula invaded Sri Lanka in A.D. 1247, with Malay soldiers.
www.rootsweb.com /~lkawgw/brihist.htm   (2757 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Central province, Sri Lanka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kandy (the Sacred City of Kandy) is a city in the centre of Sri Lanka.
Nuwara Eliya, (pronounced Noo-ray-lee-ya), the City of Light, is a town in Sri Lanka.
Matale is a town in the hill country of Sri Lanka, 96 miles from Colombo.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Central-province,-Sri-Lanka   (525 words)

  
 TAMIL CLAIMS TO LAND: FACT AND FICTION
SRI LANKA TAMIL CLAIMS TO LAND: FACT AND FICTION When the Portuguese arrived in Sri Lanka in the early part of the 16th century the seat of government of the island was at Kotte near Colombo.
The 85,375 Sri Lanka Muslims were descendants of the Arabs settled in the territory by the Sinhalese King to save them from persecution by the Portugese in the western coastal areas.
In Kandy District in the Central Province, the population was 711,449 in an area of 913 square miles (a density of 779 persons to the square mile).
www.infolanka.com /org/srilanka/issues/gamini.html   (10212 words)

  
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The subject of land tenure in Sri Lanka, including the status, claims, and rights of the Monrach with regard to the soil, is an extremely complex one as, for instance, the debates on various matters between H.W. Codarington and Julius de Lanerolle showed.
The petitioners are citizens of Sri Lanka and residents of the area called Eppawela in the Anuradhapura District in the North Central Province.
The ingenuity of the rulers and people of Sri Lanka in times gone by, it is suggested, had created a stable and sustainable agricultural development system harnessing the key natural resources available within their natural habitat, including the Eppawela deposit.
www.elaw.org /assets/word/eppawala.doc   (14461 words)

  
 WWW Virtual Library - Sri Lanka - World & Sri Lanka Heritage
Sri Dalada Maligawa, which enshrines the Tooth Relic of the Buddha, is the holiest shrine in the entire Buddhist world and to the people of Sri Lanka.
Sri Pada (Adam's peak) - The sacred mount (Sri Pada or Adam's peak as it was known to the early West was in the limelight from times before the recorded history of the Island.
MIHINTALE: The cradle of Buddhism in Sri Lanka
www.lankalibrary.com /heritage.html   (5339 words)

  
 brihist
The first Sri Lankan Muslim settlement was in a port settlement in western Sri Lanka which was named Berbereen (Beruwala) in honour of the Berber traveller who founded the city, Abu Yusuf al-Barbari.
The Muslims of Sri Lanka have a colorful history behind them punctuated by a long spell of hardship suffered during the Portuguese and Dutch occupation of the Island.
Furthermore as the Muslims of Sri Lanka claim their descendancy from the Arabs it is important to look at the information available on the advent of the Arabs to the island.
www.rootsweb.com /~lkawgw/slm-intro.htm   (3029 words)

  
 Report of the Special Rapporteur on
Sri Lanka was colonized successively by the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British, although it was the British who finally brought the whole country under a centralized system of government.
The Ministry of Defence of Sri Lanka appointed a committee to inquire into the two attacks, with a view to ascertaining who was responsible and establishing whether there was any lapse on the part of the security personnel, and to recommend measures to prevent the recurrence of incidents of this nature.
The Government of Sri Lanka should continue to elaborate and implement without delay the policy to improve security, which would enable the displaced and dispersed Tamil populations of the country to return to their homeland and would facilitate their reintegration and reinstallation.
www.unhchr.ch /Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/TestFrame/3283343d050cb85bc1256613003762ac?Opendocument   (18481 words)

  
 Sri Lanka - Links
The culture and environment of Sri Lanka's ancient heartland is threatened.
An American conglomerate is negotiating with the Sri Lankan Government to purchase rights to a 56 square kilometer region around Eppawala, and a 675 square km.
Sri Lanka's Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a plan by a U.S.-Japanese consortium to mine a phosphate deposit in the country's north-central province threatened to violate the rights of local residents.
www.pugwash.org /organization/srilanka/links.htm   (195 words)

  
 CompS Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
LAcNet with its solid academic base, non partisan commitment for enhancing educational facilities and opportunities in Sri Lanka, aims to implement this pilot project through a strong project implementation commitment and by building horizontal partnerships with Sri Lankan public and private sector organizations as well as with international educational organizations.
Visiting a rural school in Anuradhapura in the North Central province of Sri Lanka that LAcNet had selected for this project, a class of children was asked whether they were excited about linking globally through the Internet to their peers in other countries.
In the past few years, Sri Lanka has raised awareness of the Internet among its rural population through government radio and TV programs directed at non-users as well as users.
www.lacnet.org /projects/CompS.html   (2202 words)

  
 SRI LANKA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This is the first World Wide Web information server for Sri Lankan Community in Australia, proudly presented by Technology Committee of SCATS, Victoria (Sri Lankan Study Centre for the Advancement of Technology and Social Welfare) in collaboration with VICNET Australia.
Sri Lanka faced with worst flood disaster for last 50 year in recent weeks.
If any Sri Lankan Organisation or other individuals in countries of American, European and Asian continents who are interested in contacting SCATS and affiliate with SCATS or share their experience on Technology Transfer or other social welfare projects in Sri Lanka, please send your email to this address or other contact information.
www.vicnet.net.au /~slanka   (957 words)

  
 Indo Sri Lanka Accord 1987 & the Tamil National Struggle - Nadesan Satyendra
Asked what were the specific areas of the Indo Sri Lankan Agreement which caused dissatisfaction, he (Pirabaharan) said that for example, the accord mentioned a referendum even on the vital question of the merger of the North and East.
The referendum in the Eastern Province was moreover to be decided on a simple majority.he declared: 'It is not a question of the merger of the North and East.
The Sri Lankan government, for its part, in anticipation of the provincial elections and the referendum, began to take steps to settle Sinhala people in the Eastern Province and thereby secure the majority that President Jayawardene had spoken about an the 25th of July 1987.
www.tamilnation.org /intframe/india/88saty.htm   (11508 words)

  
 Lanka, Vietnam replicate Bangladesh WM model
Two cities of Vietnam and Sri Lanka replicated a Bangladesh model of community based solid waste management approach to turn the organic municipal garbage into fertiliser, officials said in Dhaka on Friday, reports BSS.
The Matale City in the Central Province of Sri Lanka and coastal Qui Nhon city in central Vietnam are to launch demonstration projects based on the Bangladesh’s Waste Concern (WC) model to convert wastes into compost fertiliser, WC officials said.
A five-day UN-ESCAP sponsored workshop in September this year brought the mayors of the two Sri Lankan and Vietnamese cities to Bangladesh to be shown the Waste Concern model for replication in their countries.
wasteconcern.org /latestNews/lanka_vietnam_replicate_bd_wm_model.html   (394 words)

  
 13th Amendment to Sri Lanka Constitution
The Indo Sri Lanka Accord signed by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India and President J.R. Jayawardene of Sri Lanka, on the 29th of July 1987, acknowledged that the Northern and Eastern Province 'have been areas of historical habitation' of the Tamils in the island of Sri Lanka.
It was this which was recognized by Professor Virginia Leary in her Report on the Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka in 1981 when she declared that the Tamils could be considered to a people with a distinct language, culture and to an extent, a defined territory.
The enthusiastic recognition of the Northern and Eastern Province as the areas of 'historical habitation' of the Tamils was apparently a 'temporary' enthusiasm confined to the preamble of the Accord.
www.tamilnation.org /conflictresolution/tamileelam/88comicopera.htm   (12574 words)

  
 SGP Project Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Socio & Environmental Foundation of the Central Province- Sri Lanka
Socio and Environmental Foundation of the Central Province
Capacities in recognising invasive plants in particular 'Mimiosa Pigra' which is fast spreading in the central province was the aim of the project
www.undp.org /sgp/cty/ASIA_PACIFIC/SRI_LANKA/pfs3761.htm   (98 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Vedda villages of Anuradhapura : the historical anthropology of a community in Sri Lanka
Vedda villages of Anuradhapura : the historical anthropology of a community in Sri Lanka
Kinship -- Sri Lanka -- North Central Province.
North Central Province (Sri Lanka) -- Social conditions.
www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/72ffa55723a1f214.html   (85 words)

  
 Sri Lanka - Energy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Demand for power increased from approximately 20 megawatts in 1951 to nearly 73 megawatts in 1963, about 90 percent of which was met from hydroelectric sources.
In early 1988, it appeared that the Mahaweli project would solve Sri Lanka's electricity supply problem for the foreseeable future.
United States and British-owned oil companies in Sri Lanka were nationalized in 1963, and since then the importing, refining, and distributing of all oil products has been the responsibility of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, the state oil company.
www.countrystudies.us /sri-lanka/53.htm   (295 words)

  
 Deliberate self harm in Sri Lanka: an overlooked tragedy in the developing world -- Eddleston et al. 317 (7151): 133 -- ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Deliberate self harm in Sri Lanka: an overlooked tragedy in the developing world -- Eddleston et al.
The case fatality rate in Sri Lanka is extremely high.
Funding: ME's stay in Sri Lanka was supported by Therapeutic Antibodies Ltd, London.
www.bmj.com /cgi/content/full/317/7151/133   (1674 words)

  
 North Central Province, Sri Lanka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
North Central Province is a province of Sri Lanka.
The province is economically rather backward and not densely populated, as the land tends to be dry tropical woodlands.
This page was last modified 02:19, 29 September 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Central_Province,_Sri_Lanka   (64 words)

  
 VISIT UVA PROVINCE-SRI LANKA
Fourth largest of Sri Lanka's nine provinces,Uva is unparalleled in natural beauty.Covering the south eastern parts of the central mountains and surrounding plains, the Uva province offers a tempting variety of diverse attractions to the visitor.
The Uva province has many unspoilt wildness areas rich in animal,bird and plant life.Predominantly(78%) agricultural,the province has a haunting rural charm; outside its few bustling towns,life styles are serene,unhurried and still traditional.
This friendly people of Uva who are of diverse ethnic origins,share a common tradition of hospitality to visitors and will make a stay in the province an enjoyble and enriching experience.
www.geocities.com /uva_srilanka   (146 words)

  
 M. W. Amarasiri de Silva (University of Peradeniya)
Amarasiri de Silva, PhD Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology Fasculty of Arts University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka Residence: 13/B2/12/4, Hantana Housing Complex Kandy, Sri Lanka phones: 94/81-2218620 (residence) 94/81-2218619 (residence) 94/81-2386190 (office) email: adesilva@slt.lk Description of work: Teaching: medical anthropology, applied sociology, research methodology both at graduate and undergraduate levels.
Amarasiri de Silva, Maternal Mortality in the Central Province of Sri Lanka: Sociological analysis of lay perspectives.
The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities, Volumes XXVII & XXVIII (Numbers 1 & 2) 2001-2002, Pp 38-58, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/data/indiv/area/idsas/deSILVA,Amarasiri.htm   (852 words)

  
 SSRN-Real Wage Trends and Labour Market Integration in Sri Lanka's Central Province by Ramani Gunatilaka
The study applies cointegration techniques to the Central Bank's informal wage sector series for agriculture and construction to analyse real wage trends and trends in labour market integration in Sri Lanka's Central Province during the post-liberalisation era.
The study finds that real wages in the tea, paddy and masonry sectors in Central Province have been largely stagnant over the reference period.
Spatial, skills-related and institutional barriers to mobility may be key factors associated with the poverty commonly experienced among this group of workers.
papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=571604   (378 words)

  
 BuddhaNet's Buddhist Asia Directory - Sri Lanka.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Teachers: Senior resident Nuns at the meditation centre.
New Town, Digana, Rajawella, Central Province, Sri Lanka
Affiliation: Sri Lanka Buddhist Monastery Inc, Brisbane Australia
www.buddhanet.net /asia_dir/abc_sri.htm   (138 words)

  
 My Exploration Stories
A 600 million years old Rose Quartz rock deposit located in the National Nä Forest at Galkiriyagama, Kekirawa, in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka.
Historical building at Thangamalé monastry, Haputale, in the Uva Province, built by one of Sri Lanka's first tea planters, Sir Thomas Lister Villiers, who came to Sri Lanka in 1887.
A 1500 million years old subterranean cave, located in the village of Akiriya in Nuwara Eliya district, in the Central Province of Sri Lanka.
seesrilanka.itgo.com /sites.htm   (124 words)

  
 2nd Match: Western Province (Sri Lanka) v Central Province at Colombo (SSC), 5-8 Feb 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Day 1: Western Province (Sri Lanka) 43, Central Province 133, Western Province (Sri Lanka) 32/1 (Daniel 9*, Tharanga 0*; 6 overs)
Day 2: Western Province (Sri Lanka) 278, Central Province 14/0 (Sudarshana 8*, MDK Perera 4*; 3 overs)
Central Province were fined 0.450 points and Western Province (Sri Lanka) were fined 0.650 points for having a slow over rate
www.cricinfo.com /ci/content/unknown/205260.html   (129 words)

  
 images of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) - Travel-Images.com - 4 - Kandy and Nalanda
images of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) - Travel-Images.com - 4 - Kandy and Nalanda
Kandy: batik - artisan applying wax with a pen
click on the thumbnails to enlarge the images - 11 photos of Sri Lanka - image bank - stock photography - Ceilão - Bilder
www.travel-images.com /sri-lanka4.html   (115 words)

  
 4th Match: Western Province (Sri Lanka) v North Central Province at Colombo (SSC), 17-20 Feb 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Western Province (Sri Lanka) v North Central Province
Points: North Central Province 16.05, Western Province (Sri Lanka) 3.97
Day 2: North Central Province 458/5 (Dilshan 48*, Chandana 24*; 99 overs)
www.cricinfo.com /ci/content/unknown/205402.html   (138 words)

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