Sri Lanka is an island of many names
- all magically evocative of a tropical land of exotic
spices, coolmisty
highlands, sun-soaked beaches, age-old Temples and lost
cities. |
To the ancient Greeks it was taprobane;
to the Arabs, Serendib; to later European conquerors, Ceilo,
Zeylan or Ceylon; and
in the Sinhala tonque of most of its own people, srilanka-
Lanka the blessed....... |
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