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	University of Colombo - History
		Although Ceylon enjoyed a well developed system of primary and secondary education at the end of the 19th century there were hardly any opportunities available locally for the study of the Arts and Sciences beyond the secondary school level.
		The NCHE on the recommendation of a Committee of its members appointed to report on the establishment of a University in Colombo, recommended to the Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs, in February 1966, that the Colombo section of the University of Ceylon be elevated to the status of a separate University.
		The Colombo section of the University of Ceylon which was originally intended to be shifted to Peradeniya, witnessed hardly any physical development and continued to function practically on the same land and in buildings and laboratories it inherited from the old University College.
	www.cmb.ac.lk /about/history.htm (1948 words)

	CEYLON - LoveToKnow Article on CEYLON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ceylon is singularly rich in wading and water birdsibises, storks, egrets, spoonbills and herons being frequently seen on the wet sands, while flamingoes line the beach in long files, and on the deeper waters inland are found teal and a countless variety of ducks and smaller fowl.
		A griculture.The natural soils of Ceylon are composed of quartzose gravel, felspathic clay and sand often of a pure white, blended with or overlaid by brown and red barns, resulting from the So decay of vegetable matter, or the disintegration of the gneiss and hornblende formations.
		Ceylon has been celebrated since the middle of the 14th century for its cinnamon, and during the period of the Dutch occupation this spice was the principal article of commerce; under their rule and up to 1832 its cultivation was a government monopoly.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CE/CEYLON.htm (10972 words)

	Colombo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Colombo (derived from Sinhalese name Kola-amba-thota which means "harbour with mango trees", altered by the Portuguese to honour Christopher Columbus), population 377,396 (Colombo metropolitan area: 2,234,289) (2001), is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka.
		Colombo was known to Roman, Arab, and Chinese traders more than 2,000 years ago.
		The University of Colombo, several colleges, an observatory, a national museum, and numerous churches, mosques, and Buddhist and Hindu temples are in Colombo; on the outskirts are two Buddhist universities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colombo (282 words)

	Colombo : Colombo, Ceylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Colombo, estimated population 750,000 (1995), is the capital of Sri Lanka.
		Colombo was probably known to Roman, Arab, and Chinese traders more than 2,000 years ago.
		The University of Sri Lanka[?], several colleges, an observatory, a national museum, and numerous churches, mosques, and Buddhist and Hindu temples are in Colombo; on the outskirts are two Buddhist universities.
	www.termsdefined.net /co/colombo,-ceylon.html (407 words)

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		The grand desideratum in the improvement of Ceylon is the increase of the population; all of whom should, in some measure, be made to increase the revenue.
		The import trade of Ceylon would be increased in proportion to the influx of population, and the duties upon enlarged imports would again tend to swell the revenue of the country.
		Coffee-planting in Ceylon has passed through the various stages inseparable from every "mania." In the early days of our possession, the Kandian district was little known, and sanguine imaginations painted the hidden prospect in their ideal colors, expecting that a trace once opened to the interior would be the road to fortune.
	www.cumorah.com /etexts/8year10.txt (21385 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Ceylon
		In 1919 he cofounded the Ceylon National Congress, and during the 1920s and 1930s held ministerial positions on Ceylon's legislative and state councils.
		(born Jan. 9, 1899, Colombo, Ceylon—died Sept. 26, 1959, Colombo) Statesman and prime minister (1956–59) of Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
		(born Sept. 7, 1906, Colombo, Ceylon—died Nov. 1, 1996, Colombo, Sri Lanka) Prime minister (1977–78) and president (1978–89) of Sri Lanka.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Ceylon&StartAt=1 (278 words)

	Colombo Races, Ceylon, 1869 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ellis, now Mayor of that city-have manufactured an elegant challenge cup for the races at Colombo, in Ceylon.
		The cup rests on a square pedestal of Devonshire marble; on each side of the pedestal is a large Maltese silver cross.
		On one side of the cup, in bas-relief, artistically wrought, is represented the encounter of Saladin and Richard Coeur de Lion, taken from Sir Walter Scott's "Crusaders." On the reverse is a battle scene, also in bas-relief—an illustration from Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered." Two winged horses, in frosted silver, serve as handles.
	www.londonancestor.com /victorian-london/colombo-races.htm (181 words)

	Fill Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The story of Ceylon Tea is the stuff of legends, a tale of formidable Englishmen and Scotsmen who had the courage to face disease, inhospitable jungles (much of the present tea country was uncleared at that time) and the elements to establish a great industry in the ruins of Ceylon's coffee plantations.
		It offers insight into Ceylon's Tea Industry in the 1930s and perhaps the first reference to the tragedy that was to affect Ceylon; Hall laments the blending of our fine teas with teas from other origins for price reasons, unknown to him predicting one of the factors that have since plagued his beloved Ceylon Tea.
		When the Westerner visits Ceylon, and drinks tea in a beautiful and cool up-country bungalow, he enthuses over his cup as though it were the ambrosia of the gods, and bemoans the fact that he cannot get the same thing in his own country.
	www.dilmahtea.com /web/common/fullreport.asp?mk_section=factsoftea&page_id=1&id=58 (2567 words)

	THE NAME “MOORS” A MISNOMER-ABSENCE OF INFORMATION REGARDING EARLY HISTORY-THE ARAB EMPIRE OF THE FIRST ...
		However meager the material available, there is sufficient evidence to show, to the unprejudiced mind, that the Ceylon Moors had their origin from among the Arab traders and settlers of old who traveled across the seas in search of trade and barter during the earliest times of the history of Ceylon.
		Like Hashim the heroes of the “Mayflower” left their home country for reasons of freedom and liberty; the one owing to religious persecution and the other owing to political intolerence, for we are left to infer that Hashim’s political creed was a danger to the tranquility of his country.
		Those Arabs who had made Ceylon their home, with their children and grand children found themselves cut off from communication with Arabia, but their descendants have retained the religion and observances of their ancestors to the present day with that inward conservation which is a racial habit.
	www.rootsweb.com /~lkawgw/slm-moor.htm (3730 words)

	Journal of Buddhist Ethics
		Colombo: Sri Lanka Jātika Pustakāla Seevā Maṇḍalaya, 1987.
		Colombo: The Sri Lanka National Commission for UNESCO and The Central Cultural Fund, 1990.
		Vāliviṭa Saraṇaṇkara and the Revival of Buddhism in Ceylon.
	jbe.gold.ac.uk /4/deeg1.html (4550 words)

	CEYLON - Online Information article about CEYLON
		Colombo lighthouse is hidden from sight amid the See also:
		Thetwo distinctive monsoons of the year are called, from the winds which accompany them, the south-west and the north-east.
		Ceylon is singularly rich in wading and water birds—ibises, storks, egrets, spoonbills and herons being frequently seen on the wet sands, while flamingoes line the beach in long files, and on the deeper waters inland are found See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CAU_CHA/CEYLON.html (4429 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Colombo
		Ceylon, includes two of the nine provinces into which the island is divided, viz.
		Ceylon a vicariate Apostolic and the first vicar Apostolic, Don Vicente de Rozario, was consecrated in 1836.
		Ceylon Catholic Union, established in 1902, with branches in all the principal parts of the island.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04124a.htm (950 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Following the occupation of the coastal provinces of Ceylon by Portuguese, Colombo became the centre of the Portuguese rulers and after the annexation of Kandyan Territory by the British in 1815 it became the capital of the whole island.
		The establishment of the Colombo Municipal Council was perhaps the first substantial step taken by the rulers to give the Ceylonese as a whole the feeling that Colombo was their city and capital.
		The revenue of the Colombo Municipal Council in its first year was Sterling Pounds 6,429 and in the year 1872, when Ceylon changed over from sterling to a decimal currency, the Council's income had risen to Rs.
	www.cmc.lk /History.asp (556 words)

	Maps And Prints
		Insets: Lake of Kandy; Adam’s Peak from the Lake of Colombo; Ruins of a Dagora at Toopharamaya; Temple of Buddha, Kalany; and Colombo.
		The Lighthouse and Flagstaff at Colombo, Ceylon, from The Illustrated London News (Sept. 17, 1864).
		Layard Presenting to the Prince of Wales the address of the municipal council at Colombo, Ceylon; and Reception of the Prince at Kandy; Ceylon, from The Illustrated London News (Jan. 15, 1876).
	www.indianoceanbooks.com /maps/ceylon.htm (2356 words)

	1959 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts - Tarzie Vittachi
		VITTACHI describes the divisions that have existed in Ceylon of race, language, caste and sub-caste, between highland and lowland dwellers, religions and sects of religions, and between an English-educated upper middle class and a Sinhalese-educated lower middle class.
		Emphasizing that power in Ceylon is still determined largely by such factors as personality, ad hoc events and religion, Emergency '58 is an appeal to the leaders of all communities and at all levels to accept the extra responsibility that should be theirs.
		Ceylon is now afflicted by a general malaise which no one can escape sensing," the author says.
	www.rmaf.org.ph /Awardees/Biography/BiographyVittachiTar.htm (1071 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Aitken Spence was established in Colombo in 1871.
		Carson and Co. was established in Colombo in 1857.
		The Delmege Reid and Co. overprint is probably the precursor to the Delmege Forsyth and Co. Ltd.
	www.kw.igs.net /~mjbehm/overprints/cosgb/ceylon.htm (381 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Kandy
		Colombo, Ceylon, India, from which it was cut off as a vicariate Apostolic on 16 April, 1883, and erected into a diocese on 1 September, 1886.
		Ceylon, and about four miles away are the botanical gardens of Peradenia, covering one hundred and fifty acres with most luxuriant exotic vegetation.
		Ceylon, is the northernmost limit of European civilization.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08596b.htm (1069 words)

	Sri Lanka ceylon Colombo commercial capital sri lanka Colombo sri lanka colonial buildings markets temples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Colombo is the commercial capital and financial center of Sri Lanka also known as Ceylon.
		East of the Fort in Colombo is the pungent Pettah bazaar district.
		In the lowlands the climate is typically tropical with an average temperature of 27°C in Colombo.
	www.ecotourism-culturaltourism.com /wt/colombo.htm (375 words)

	Leading Characters in the 1915 Pogrom - Sangam.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		That Jayewardene was able to float his political star in the Colombo South constituency, buoyed by the sizeable segment of indigenous Tamil voters, from 1960 to 1977, and reach his ambitious dream also deserves notice.
		His despatch to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Walter Long, on the Kegalle Shootings [see Sessional paper VI of 1917] was a sensational document, which marked a complete reversal of official opinion on the measures adopted to suppress the Riots.
		The horse-driven gun-carriage that carried his coffin for interment at the General Cemetry, Colombo, was rushed in a undignified gallop to the consternation and distress of all of us who saw it.
	www.sangam.org /articles/view2/?uid=1068 (2072 words)

	:: University of Peradeniya - Our History :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The University of Ceylon continued to function as University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, while those sections of the university operating in Colombo continued as the Colombo campus of the university until 1967, when they were split into two separate and independent universities.
		Established as the Department of Dental Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ceylon, Colombo in 1943, the Dental School was moved to Augusta Hill, Peradeniya in 1954.
		In 1967, with the establishment of the University of Ceylon, Colombo, which amalgamated those sections of the University still functioning in Colombo, the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, lost its two major Faculties, namely, the Faculties of Medicine and Science together with their academic departments.
	www.pdn.ac.lk /overview/history_more.html (4502 words)

	Ceylon Continental - Colombo, Sri Lanka - Ceylon Continental Rates and Reviews - SideStep
		Colombo, LK One of the best located hotels in the city the Ceylon Continental offers excellent business facilities, a large attractive outdoor swimming pool, jacuzzi, sauna, a fully equiped gymnasium, 3 tennis courts and a beauty parlour.
		Overlooking the Indian Ocean, the Ceylon Continental is located in Colombo`s commercial sector providing easy access to government offices, banks, airline offices and shopping malls.
		The hotel is just 35 kilometres from the International airport and within close proximity to local attractions such as the zoological gardens, National Museum, temples and other attractions.The hotel has 250 rooms all with refrigerator, minibar, safe, television with satellite TV and direct dial telephone.
	www.sidestep.com /hotels-rates-h90146-ceylon_continental_colombo_sri_lanka (226 words)

	Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
		The general style of Ceylon carriages appeared in the shape of a caricature of a hearse: this goes by the name of a palanquin carriage.
		I rented a good airy house in Colombo as headquarters, and the verandas were soon strewed with jungle-baskets, boxes, tent, gun-cases, and all the paraphernalia of a shooting-trip.
		There was a carriage road from Colombo, one hundred and fifteen miles, and from Kandy, forty-seven miles; the last thirteen being the Rambodde Pass, arriving at an elevation of six thousand six hundred feet, from which point a descent of two miles terminated the road to Newera Ellia.
	lakdiva.org /8year10/chap01.html (2234 words)

	Hultsdorf Mills - Colombo, Ceylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A Ceylon catamaran in center with spreaders under sail in water.
		The Company called The Hultsdorf Mills Co. (Ceylon) Ltd. was founded in London to develop the Mill called Belmont Oil Mill (in Belmont Street) founded in 1835 on a tract of land on the banks of the Canal at Hultsdorf.
		Renamed Royal College and moved to residential Cinnamon Gardens in Colombo, it was the School I attended in Sri Lanka.
	www.lakdiva.org /coins/coffee/1872_hultsdorf_mills.html (445 words)

	Lerski: Origins of Trotskyism in Ceylon (Chap.1)
		Ceylon’s agricultural economy, which is characterized by the one-sided plantation system (tea, rubber, and coconuts), proved particularly vulnerable at the time of the world’s great depression in the early nineteen-thirties.
		In Ceylon the British learnt by trial and error the art of colonial administration; but they learnt also the wisdom of relinquishing control when it was no longer tolerable by a people willing and able to maintain itself as an independent state.
		The term “epicenter of Ceylon’s revolution” was used by Edmund Samarakkody M.P. at his lecture to the students of the University of Ceylon early in 1964, which I attended.
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/document/srilanka/ch01.htm (8321 words)

	AIM25: Institute of Commonwealth Studies: Colombo Observatory, Ceylon
		Administrative/Biographical history: The history of meteorological observations in Ceylon, in the form of rainfall measurement, dates back to year 1850.
		The Colombo Observatory was set up in 1907 on Bullers Road (Bauddhaloka Mawatha) in Colombo.
		Scope and content/abstract: Collection of reprints by Dr H Jameson and other members of the Colombo Observatory, J P Andrews, A J Bamford and A P Kandasamy, mainly concerning climatology in Ceylon, 1912-1958.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/16/4727.htm (162 words)

	Reservoirs of Sri Lanka and their fisheries
		Abayasiri, 1978 R.R. and H.H. Costa, The hydrobiology of Colombo (Beira) lake VII.
		Denham, E.B., 1912 Ceylon at the census of 1911.
		Panabokke, C.R., 1967 Soil science, the soils of Ceylon and the use of fertilizers, Colombo, Ceylon Association for the Advancment of Science, 150 p.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/003/T0028E/T0028E09.htm (3339 words)

	Find best price for hotels, apartments and beach resorts
		Overlooking the Indian Ocean, the Ceylon Continental Hotel Colombo is strategically and picturesquely located in Sri Lanka's commercial capital of Colombo.
		Ceylon Continental Hotel Colombo consists of 250 rooms and suites, with all rooms overlooking the serene blue waters of the Indian Ocean.
		All the rooms are facing the placid Indian ocean and the Colombo city.
	www.marhabaholidays.com /webfiles/productView.asp?prop=3418®ion=Colombo (398 words)

	Robert Wilson's Ceylon Teas - History of Ceylon Teas
		After 1865 the establishment of the Planters Association and the Tea Research Institute (T.R.I) were both direct results of the trauma and pain of that time, never again would planters be left to watch helplessly as their lives work disintegrated before them.
		The reason for the statement was that in 1865 the coffee planters of Ceylon noted a leaf fungus appearing that caused the leaf to die and drop off, yields fell and trees died.
		With the collapse of the coffee plantations in Ceylon in the 1860’s, families and interested parties imported both the Assam type from India and the China jat from china.
	www.wilstea.com /ceylon.htm (4164 words)

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