"destinations (in Europe and towards Australia) with co-operative BOAC or Qantas flights. The co-operation with BOAC and Qantas was reduced at that time, instead a codeshare-like agreement was signed with Indian Airlines. As a consequence, Air Ceylon re-launched services to Australia and expanded its European network. Before ending operations in 1979, Air Ceylon had 1 Hawker Siddeley HS 748 and 1 Hawker Siddeley Trident. Over the years, Air Ceylon operated the following aircraft types Air Ceylon Air Ceylon was the former flag carrier airline of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). The airline discontinued flights to Europe in early 1978 and finally"
"Wars. It is the predecessor to the Ceylon Army. British Ceylon Ceylon (Sinhala: , ""Brithānya Laṃkāva""; Tamil: பிரித்தானிய இலங்கை, ""Birithaniya Ilangai"") was a British Crown colony between 1815 and 1948. Initially the area it covered did not include the Kingdom of Kandy, which was a protectorate from 1815, but from 1817 to 1948 the British possessions included the whole island of Ceylon, now the nation of Sri Lanka. Before the beginning of the Dutch governance, the island of Ceylon was divided between the Portuguese Empire and the Kingdom of Kandy, who were in the midst of a war for control"
"British Ceylon Ceylon (Sinhala: , ""Brithānya Laṃkāva""; Tamil: பிரித்தானிய இலங்கை, ""Birithaniya Ilangai"") was a British Crown colony between 1815 and 1948. Initially the area it covered did not include the Kingdom of Kandy, which was a protectorate from 1815, but from 1817 to 1948 the British possessions included the whole island of Ceylon, now the nation of Sri Lanka. Before the beginning of the Dutch governance, the island of Ceylon was divided between the Portuguese Empire and the Kingdom of Kandy, who were in the midst of a war for control of the island as a whole. The island attracted"
"Names of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා, ""Śrī Lankā""; Tamil: இலங்கை , ""Ilaṅkai""), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island in the northern Indian Ocean which has been known under various names over time. Under British rule, the island was known as Ceylon from 1815-1972. ""Lanka"" was the classical name bestowed on the island by the Ramayana, an ancient Indian epic. A possible theory is that the name Lanka is derived from the Tamil word ""ilanku"" (இலங்கு), which means ""to shine"" or ""to glitter"", thus making ""Lanka"" a name that means ""that which glitters""."
"Invasion of Ceylon (1795) The Invasion of Ceylon was a military campaign fought as a series of amphibious operations between the summer of 1795 and spring of 1796 between the garrison of the Batavian colonies on the Indian Ocean island of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and a British invasion force sent from British India. The Dutch Republic had been a British ally during the French Revolutionary Wars, but was overrun by the French Republic in the winter of 1794 and reformed into the client state of the Batavian Republic. The British government, working with the exiled Stadtholder William of Orange,"
"HMS Ceylon (30) HMS ""Ceylon"" was a light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was of the ""Ceylon"" sub class, named after the island of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). The cruiser saw service in the Atlantic and Pacific theatres during the Second World War. In the postwar era, she participated in actions in Egypt and the Korean War. In 1960 she transferred to the navy of Peru and renamed . The cruiser was scrapped in 1985. Built by Stephens at Govan and launched on 30 July 1942, she was completed on 13 July 1943. After two months in the Home"
"() from the word ""Tambapanni"". The Persians and Arabs referred to it as ""Sarandīb"" (the origin of the word ""serendipity"") from ""Cerentivu"" or ""Siṃhaladvīpaḥ"". ""Ceilão"", the name given to Sri Lanka by the Portuguese Empire when it arrived in 1505, was transliterated into English as ""Ceylon"". As a British crown colony, the island was known as Ceylon; it achieved independence as the Dominion of Ceylon in 1948. The country is now known in Sinhalese as ' () and in Tamil as ' (, ). In 1972, its formal name was changed to ""Free, Sovereign and Independent Republic of Sri Lanka""."
"Dutch Ceylon Dutch Ceylon (Sinhala: ලන්දේසි ලංකාව ""Landesi Lankava"") was a governorate established in present-day Sri Lanka by the Dutch East India Company. It existed from 1640 until 1796. In the early 17th century, Sri Lanka was partly ruled by the Portuguese and Sri Lankan kingdoms, who were constantly battling each other. Although the Portuguese were not winning the war, their rule was rather burdensome to the people of those areas controlled by them. While the Dutch were engaged in a long war of independence from Spanish rule, the Sinhalese king (the king of Kandy) invited the Dutch to help"
"loanwords. Dutch Ceylon Dutch Ceylon (Sinhala: ලන්දේසි ලංකාව ""Landesi Lankava"") was a governorate established in present-day Sri Lanka by the Dutch East India Company. It existed from 1640 until 1796. In the early 17th century, Sri Lanka was partly ruled by the Portuguese and Sri Lankan kingdoms, who were constantly battling each other. Although the Portuguese were not winning the war, their rule was rather burdensome to the people of those areas controlled by them. While the Dutch were engaged in a long war of independence from Spanish rule, the Sinhalese king (the king of Kandy) invited the Dutch to"
"strophe of the Portuguese national epic poem ""Os Lusíadas"" by Luís de Camões. John Milton borrowed this for his epic poem ""Paradise Lost"" and Miguel de Cervantes mentions a fantastic ""Trapobana"" in Don Quixote. Names of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා, ""Śrī Lankā""; Tamil: இலங்கை , ""Ilaṅkai""), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island in the northern Indian Ocean which has been known under various names over time. Under British rule, the island was known as Ceylon from 1815-1972. ""Lanka"" was the classical name bestowed on the island by the Ramayana, an ancient Indian"
"Postage stamps and postal history of Sri Lanka This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Sri Lanka, formerly known as ""Ceylon"". Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about 31 km off the southern coast of India. After over two thousand years of rule by local kingdoms, parts of Sri Lanka were colonized by Portugal and the Netherlands beginning in the 16th century, before control of the entire country passed to Britain in 1815. A nationalist political movement arose in the country in the early 20th century with the aim of obtaining"
"(Constitution and Independence) Orders in Council 1947, Ceylon (as Sri Lanka was known then) became a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary form of government. The Monarch of Ceylon, served as head of state, represented by the Governor-General with the Prime Minister serving as the head of government. The Governor-General replaced the position of the British Governor of Ceylon who excised executive control over the entire island since 1815. In 1972, the new Republican Constitution, declared Sri Lanka a republic and the monarchy abolished. Thereby the office of the Governor-General was replaced by that of President as head of state and"
"political independence, which was eventually granted by the British after peaceful negotiations in 1948. The country became a republic and adopted its current name in 1972. The first stamps for British Ceylon were issued on 1 April 1857. The stamp features a portrait of Queen Victoria and is brown in colour. It is a 6 pence value used to send a half ounce letter from Ceylon to England. Eight more stamps were issued in year 1857, all featuring the portrait of Queen Victoria. One of the 5 stamps that were issued on 23 April 1859 is considered to be the"
"Ceylon (1803 ship) Ceylon was an East Indiaman launched in 1803. She performed four voyages for the British East India Company (EIC). On her fourth voyage the French captured her in the Action of 3 July 1810; she then took part in the Battle of Grand Port. The British recaptured her at the invasion of Île de France (now Mauritius). She completed her fourth voyage and her owners then sold her. She became a transport until her owners sold her in 1815 to new foreign owners. Captain Thomas Hudson left The Downs on 27 April 1803, bound for Bombay, Bengal,"
"Later in 1978 it was changed to the ""Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka"". As the name Ceylon still appears in the names of a number of organisations, the Sri Lankan government announced in 2011 a plan to rename all those over which it has authority. The pre-history of Sri Lanka goes back 125,000 years and possibly even as far back as 500,000 years. The era spans the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and early Iron Ages. Among the Paleolithic human settlements discovered in Sri Lanka, Pahiyangala (named after the Chinese traveller monk Faxian), which dates back to 37,000 BP, Batadombalena (28,500 BP)"
"Legislative Council of Ceylon The 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 of the Colebrooke-Cameron Commission. It was the first form of representative government in the island. The 1931 Donoughmore Constitution replaced the Legislative Council with the State Council of Ceylon. Members of the Legislative Council, used the post-nominal letters, MLC. In 1833 the Colebrooke-Cameron Commission created the Legislative Council of Ceylon, the first step in representative government in British Ceylon. Initially the Legislative Council consisted of 16 members: the British"
"by the Portuguese, Dutch and British. Between 1597 and 1658, a substantial part of the island was under Portuguese rule. The Portuguese lost their possessions in Ceylon due to Dutch intervention in the Eighty Years' War. Following the Kandyan Wars, the island was united under British rule in 1815. Armed uprisings against the British took place in the 1818 Uva Rebellion and the 1848 Matale Rebellion. Independence was finally granted in 1948 but the country remained a Dominion of the British Empire until 1972. In 1972 Sri Lanka assumed the status of a Republic. A constitution was introduced in 1978"
"Seychelles Seychelles ( ; French: ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (; Creole: ""Repiblik Sesel""), is an archipelago country in the Indian Ocean. The capital of the 115-island country, Victoria, lies east of mainland East Africa. Other nearby island countries and territories include Comoros, Mayotte (region of France), Madagascar, Réunion (region of France) and Mauritius to the south. With a population of roughly , it has the smallest population of any sovereign African country. Seychelles is a member of the African Union, the Southern African Development Community, the Commonwealth of Nations, and the United Nations. After proclamation of independence from"
"Ceylon serving as the Acting Governor General of Ceylon. This practice continued after the republican constitution was adopted in 1972 and Dominion of Ceylon became the Republic of Sri Lanka, with the Chief Justice serving as Acting President during the absence of the President of Sri Lanka. This capacity ceased with the second amendment to the republican constitution in 1978 when the Executive Presidency was established and order of succession defined. The Chief Justice is ranked fourth in the order of precedence after the President, Prime Minister and the Speaker of the Parliament. From 1948 to 1978 the Speaker ranked"
"of the 20th century. The name was used by the Marxist Lanka Sama Samaja Party, which was founded in 1935. The Sanskrit honorific ""Sri"" was introduced in the name of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (Sinhalese: ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය ""Sri Lanka Nidahas Pakshaya""), founded in 1952. The Republic of Sri Lanka was officially adopted as the country's name with the new constitution of 1972, and changed to ""Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka"" in the constitution of 1978. The name ""Ceylon"" has a complicated history going back to antiquity. One theory is that it derives from the Old-Tamil word"
"island in 1796, using war with France as its excuse for commandeering Dutch territory. Ceylon was declared a Crown Colony in 1802, but the island was never to be officially connected with British India. The fall of the kingdom of Kandy in 1815 unified the island under British rule. Cricket was introduced to Ceylon by the British and the first recorded match is dated 1832. The earliest definite mention of cricket in Ceylon was a report in the ""Colombo Journal"" on 5 September 1832 which called for the formation of a cricket club. The Colombo Cricket Club was formed and"
"the whole British Malta (now Malta), Ottoman Tripolitania (now Libya), Egypt, Ottoman Empire (parts now belonging to Cretan State in Greece, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia), Emirate of Jabal Shammar (now belonging to Saudi Arabia), Aden Protectorate (now belonging to Yemen), Muscat and Oman (now Oman), British Raj (the parts now belonging to India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Myanmar), British Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Siam (name changed to Thailand later), French Indochina (the parts now belonging to Cambodia, southern tip of Laos and southern Vietnam, including Phnom Penh), Bombay Reef in the Paracel Islands, and Philippines. Solar eclipse of"
"Herath, Sanath Jayasuriya, Mahela Jayawardene, Muttiah Muralitharan, Kumar Sangakkara and Chaminda Vaas. Administration and governance are performed by Sri Lanka Cricket, which was founded in July 1922 as the Ceylon Cricket Association (CCA). The main domestic competition is the Premier Trophy which attained first-class status in 1988. Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon, has an age-old civilisation. It came under European influence and control after Dutch colonists arrived in the 17th century; although the interior hilly region of the island remained independent for over a century with its capital at Kandy. The British East India Company established control of the"
"the Ceylon Electrical and Mechanical Engineer Corps, the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the Ceylon Corps of Military Police, the Ceylon Signals Corps and the Colombo Town Guard Unit, which had been previously disbanded, but was re-formed to meet military requirements. During the Second World War Britain assumed direct control over the Armed Forces of Ceylon. Following the formation of the Army in 1949, the CDF became the nucleus of the Ceylon Army and all volunteer units of the CDF—which was the majority—became the Ceylon Volunteer Force (CVF). Many Second World War veterans were serving in the CVF at the time and"
"Miss Universe Sri Lanka Miss Universe Sri Lanka (formerly known as Miss Ceylon) is a national pageant in Sri Lanka to choose ambassador for the Miss Universe pageant. Miss Sri Lanka identified in 1953 with Manel Illangakoon of Colombo and became the oldest national pageant in Sri Lanka. The name of Sri Lanka previously named as British Ceylon between 1902 and 1948 then made an independence in 1948 as Ceylon. In 1953 was the first beauty pageant era in Sri Lanka by its government in Colombo. The first Miss Ceylon went to Miss World and debuted at Miss Universe in"
"the independent Seychelles and uses stamps of Zil Elwannyen Sesel. The CIS was founded in December 1991 at a meeting in Minsk of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. It was intended to be a commonwealth of Slav republics to ensure co-operation in defence, economics and foreign policy. It was subsequently joined by all the other former Soviet states except Georgia and the three Baltic republics. Stamps of the USSR continued to be used in the member states until each could introduce new types. There have been no issues for the CIS as a whole. An archipelago in the Indian Ocean, north"
"Ceylon (today's Sri Lanka), and commercial interests in Japan, Africa (Mina), and South America. Even though Portuguese were unable to capture the entire island of Ceylon, they were able to keep the coastal regions of Ceylon under their control for a considerable time. Brazil was partially conquered by both France and the Seventeen Provinces. In the 17th Century, taking advantage of this period of Portuguese weakness, many Portuguese territories in Brazil were occupied by the Dutch who gained access to the sugarcane plantations. John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen was appointed as the governor of the Dutch possessions in Brazil in"
"who renamed the station Radio SEAC which broadcast across South Asia from October 1944. After the war the station was handed back to the civilian government of Ceylon who renamed it Radio Ceylon on 1 October 1949. The station was immensely popular both in Ceylon and other parts of Asia. The Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation Act No. 37 of 1966 incorporated the Department of Broadcasting. Radio Ceylon became a public corporation on 30 September 1967, changing its name to Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Ceylon was renamed Sri Lanka in 1972 after becoming a republic and consequently CBC was renamed Sri Lanka"
"constitution of Ceylon created a parliamentary democracy with a bicameral legislature consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives, with the popularly elected House indirectly naming the Senate. The head of state was the British monarch, represented in the country by the Governor General. The head of government was the prime minister, and he/she and his/her cabinet consisted of the largest political party in the legislature. Initially, the prominent party was the UNP, the United National Party. In the first parliamentary elections, the UNP gained 42 out of the 95 seats available, and also won the elections in 1952."
"What are the problems in Ceylon [Sri Lanka] you think you can deal with?GLUCK: One of the problems are the people there. I believe I can - I think I can establish, unless we - again, unless I run into something that I have not run into before–a good relationship and good feeling toward the United States...FULBRIGHT: Do you know our Ambassador to India?GLUCK: I know John Sherman Cooper, the previous Ambassador.FULBRIGHT: Do you know who the Prime Minister of India is?GLUCK: Yes, but I can't pronounce his name.FULBRIGHT: Do you know who the Prime Minister of Ceylon is?GLUCK: His"
"Portuguese Ceylon Portuguese Ceylon (, Sinhala: පෘතුගීසි ලංකාව ""Puruthugisi Lankawa"") was the control of the Kingdom of Kotte by the Portuguese Empire, in present-day Sri Lanka, after the country's Crisis of the Sixteenth Century and into the Kandyan period. The Portuguese presence in the island lasted from 1505 to 1658. Their arrival was largely accidental, as they sought control of commerce, rather than territory. Their appearance coincided with the political upheaval of the Wijayaba Kollaya, and they were drawn into the internal politics of the island as they sought to establish control over the lucrative cinnamon trade that originated there."
"support. Sri Lanka has been a member state of the Commonwealth of Nations since 1948, when it became independent as the Dominion of Ceylon. In 1972, Ceylon became a Commonwealth republic under the name of Sri Lanka. William Gopallawa, the last Governor-General of Ceylon became the first President of Sri Lanka. In November 2013, Sri Lanka hosted the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Foreign relations of Sri Lanka Foreign relations of Sri Lanka refers to the diplomatic and commercial relations between Sri Lanka and other countries. Sri Lanka has stressed its principle of friendship towards all, enmity towards none in"
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