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A2 highway (Sri Lanka)
The A 2 is an A-Grade road in Sri Lanka.
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Adam's Peak
Adam's Peak is a tall conical mountain located in central Sri Lanka.
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Bastion fort
A bastion fort, a type of trace Italienne (literally, Italian outline), is a fortification in a style that evolved during the early modern period of gunpowder when the cannon came to dominate the battlefield.
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Cable-stayed bridge
A cable-stayed bridge has one or more towers (or pylons), from which cables support the bridge deck.
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City
A city is a large human settlement.
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Coastal line (Sri Lanka)
The coastal line (sometimes referred to as the coast line or the southern line) is a major railway line in Sri Lanka, running between Colombo Fort and Matara, via Galle.
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Colombo
Colombo (translit,; translit) is the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka.
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Defensive wall
A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors.
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Dharmapala of Kotte
Dharmapala or Dom João Dharmapala Peria Bandara (1541 – May 27, 1597) was last king of the Kingdom of Kotte, in present-day Sri Lanka, from 1551 until May 27, 1597.
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Dondra
Dondra (Sinhala:දෙවුන්දර තුඩුව/Devi Nuwara - God's Town/City of Gods, Tamil: Tevan/Ten Thurai, Corruption: Devundara/Dondra - Lord's Port/South Port) is a settlement on the extreme southernmost tip of Sri Lanka, in the Indian Ocean near Matara, Southern Province, Sri Lanka.
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Dondra Head Lighthouse
Dondra Head Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on Dondra Head, Dondra, the southernmost point in Sri Lanka and is Sri Lanka's tallest lighthouse, and also one of the tallest in South East Asia.
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Dutch Ceylon
Dutch Ceylon (Sinhala: ලන්දේසි ලංකාව Landesi Lankava) was a governorate established in present-day Sri Lanka by the Dutch East India Company.
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Dutch Reformed Church, Matara
The Dutch Reformed Church is located within the Matara fort in Matara and is situated near the entrance to the fort.
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E01 expressway (Sri Lanka)
The Southern Expressway, also known as the Southern Lanka Distributor (Dakśina Laṃkā Adhivēgi Mārgaya, தென்னிலங்கை அதிவேக நெடுஞ்சாலை is Sri Lanka's first E Class highway. The highway links the Sri Lankan capital Colombo with Galle and Matara, major cities in the south of the island. The Southern Expressway Project (SEP) was introduced by the Road Development Authority and the Ministry of Highways as far back as late 1980s. The University of Moratuwa undertook an Environment Impact Assessment study in 1996, which was submitted to the government in early 1997. Construction of the highway began in 2003 and completion up to Galle was achieved by November 2011. March 2014 saw the section from Galle to Matara being declared open to the public. The construction of the expressway was partly funded by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, who were responsible for the section between Kurundugahahetekma and Kokmaduwa, and the Asian Development Bank, responsible for the section between Kurundugahahetekma and Pinnaduwa. The expressway reduces the time taken to travel from Colombo to Galle to one hour from three hours, and Colombo to Matara to one and a half hours from four hours taken by the regular A2 highway. The extension of the expressway to Hambantota was inaugurated on 4 July 2015. The extension will be four lanes (with allowance of further two lanes in future), the cost of US $180M being funded by the Exim Bank of China. On 10 August 2015, a Highway Traffic Management system was inaugurated and currently covers the length of the expressway, including the Outer-Circular Expressway.
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Ferry
A ferry is a merchant vessel used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water.
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Gajaman Nona
Donna Isabella Koraneliya (Sinhala:දෝන ඉසබෙලා කොරනෙලියා) (Gajaman Nona) was a Sri Lankan author who was noted for having the ability to write and recite impromptu Sinhala poetry.
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Galle Fort
Galle Fort (ගාලු කොටුව Galu Kotuwa; translit), in the Bay of Galle on the southwest coast of Sri Lanka, was built first in 1588 by the Portuguese, then extensively fortified by the Dutch during the 17th century from 1649 onwards.
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Kataragama
Kataragama (translit, translit) is a pilgrimage town sacred to Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and indigenous Vedda people of Sri Lanka.
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Kumaratunga Munidasa
Kumaratunga Munidasa (Sinhala: කුමාරතුංග මුනිදාස; 25 July 1887 – 2 March 1944) was a pioneer Sri Lankan (Sinhala) linguist, grammarian, commentator, writer, poet, and journalist.
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List of railway stations in Sri Lanka
List of railway stations in Sri Lanka include.
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List of sovereign states
This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.
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Matara Bodhiya
Matara Bodhiya is a sacred fig tree in Matara, Sri Lanka.
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Matara Central College
Matara Central College is one of the mixed school in Matara City.
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Matara District
Matara (මාතර දිස්ත්රික්කය Mātara distrikkaya; மாத்தறை மாவட்டம் Māttaṛai māvaṭṭam) is a district in Southern Province, Sri Lanka.
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Matara fort
The Matara Fort (මාතර බලකොටුව Mathara Balakotuwa; translit) was built in 1560 by the Portuguese and was substantially re-built by the Dutch in 1640, following the capture of Galle.
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Matara railway station
Matara railway station is a station in Matara, Sri Lanka.
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Mayor
In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.
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Municipal council
A municipal council is the local government of a municipality such as city councils and town councils.
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Old Nupe Market
The Old Nupe Market (නූපේ පැරණි වෙළඳ ගොඩනැගිල්ල) or the Old Dutch Market is a historic, European-built structure in Matara, Sri Lanka.
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Open University of Sri Lanka
"The Open University of Sri Lanka" (OUSL) (ශ්රී ලංකා විවෘත විශ්ව විද්යාලය, இலங்கை திறந்த பல்கலைக்கழகம்) is a national university in Sri Lanka.
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Principality of Ruhuna
The Principality of Ruhuna, also referred to as the Kingdom of Ruhuna, is a region of present-day Southern and Eastern Sri Lanka.
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Promontory
A promontory is a raised mass of land that projects into a lowland or a body of water (in which case it is a peninsula).
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Rahula College
Rahula College is a boys' school in Sri Lanka, located in Matara district.
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Sinhalese people
The Sinhalese (Sinhala: සිංහල ජාතිය Sinhala Jathiya, also known as Hela) are an Indo-Aryan-speaking ethnic group native to the island of Sri Lanka.
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Southern Province, Sri Lanka
The Southern Province (දකුණු පළාත Dakunu Palata, தென் மாகாணம் Thaen Maakaanam) of Sri Lanka is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, the first level administrative division of the country.
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Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (commonly known as Kotte) is the official, administrative capital of Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.
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Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
. The Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (ශ්රී ලංකා තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ ආයතනය; இலங்கை தகவல் தொழில்நுட்ப நிறுவனம்) (also known as SLIIT) is a private institute in Sri Lanka specializing in technology, engineering and business.
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Sri Lanka Railways
The Sri Lanka Railway Department (more commonly known as Sri Lanka Railways (SLR)) (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා දුම්රිය සේවය Śrī Laṃkā Dumriya Sēvaya; Tamil: இலங்கை புகையிரத சேவைகள்) is Sri Lanka's railway owner and primary operator.
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Sri Lankan Moors
Sri Lankan Moors (translit; translit formerly Ceylon Moors; colloquially referred to as Muslims or Moors) are an ethnic minority group in Sri Lanka, comprising 9.3% of the country's total population.
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St. Mary's Convent Matara
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St. Servatius' College
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St. Thomas' College, Matara
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St. Thomas' Girls' High School
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Star fort, Matara
The Star Fort (මාතර තාරකා කොටුව Mathara Tharaka Kotuwa; translit) is a fort in Matara, Sri Lanka, located on the eastern bank of the Nilwala River, approximately from the gate to the Matara fort.
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Sujatha Vidyalaya
Sujatha Vidyalaya is a girls' school in Sri Lanka.
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Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka)
Sunday Observer is a weekly English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka, published on Sundays.
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Telephone numbers in Sri Lanka
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Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera
Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera (1408 - 1491) was a Buddhist monk and an eminent scholar, who lived in the 15th century in Sri Lanka.
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University of Ruhuna
The University of Ruhuna (රුහුණ විශ්වවිද්යාලය, රෝහණ සරසවිය (Ruhuṇa Viśvavidyālaya, Rohana sarasaviya),; ருகுண பல்கலைக் கழகம்) is a public university in Matara, Sri Lanka.
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2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on 26 December with the epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matara,_Sri_Lanka
