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Sri Lanka (Geographic Name)

Number of records used in: 2

Preferred form: Sri Lanka

Used for/see from:

Shri Lanka
Lanka
Serendib
Taprobane
Cellao
Zeilan
Serendip
Sī Langkā
Sri Lanka Prajathanthrika Samajavadi Janarajaya
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Śrīlaṅkā
Ilaṅkai

See also:

Earlier heading: Ceylon

Notes

Fernando, N. Serendip to Sri Lanka, 1991: p. 29 (many names, Lanka, Serendib, Taprobane, Cellao, Zeilan)

Piyanāt Bunnāk. Prawattisāt læ ʻārayatham khō̜ng Sī Langkā ... 1991.

The statesman's year-book, 1995-1996: p. 1213 (Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka Prajathanthrika Samajavadi Janarajaya (Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka)); 2005: p. 1509 (Ceylon became republic and adopted name Sri Lanka, May 1972)

Śrīlaṅkā ke samāja evaṃ dharma para Bhāratīya prabhāva, 2009: t.p. (Śrīlaṅkā)

GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (island; 07°30ʹ00ʺN 080°30ʹ00ʺE)

Tamil Ilaṅkaic carittiram = Tamil history of Ceylon, 1930 t.p. (Ilaṅkai)

LAC internal file, March 18, 2019 (heading: Sri Lanka; variants: Shri Lanka; Ceylon)

In May 1972 Ceylon became a republic and adopted the name Sri Lanka.