Common
Names of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා, romanized: Śrī Lankā; Tamil: சிறி லங்கா / இலங்கை, romanized: Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in the northern Indian Ocean which has been known under various names over time. In the 19th century, it was said that the oldest recorded name of Sri Lanka was Tamraparni (= Taprobane). Sri Lanka was also known in Greek sources as Simoundou and Salike in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, which some scholars have derived from the Pali Sihalam (or Simhalam, Sihalan, Sihala); which became Saylan from the 9th century, and transcribed as Ceilão by the Portuguese in 1505; and later as Ceylon in English. Ceylon was used until it was replaced by Sri Lanka in 1972; the honorific Sri has been added to Lanka, a place mentioned in ancient texts and assumed to refer to the country between the 10th and the 12th centuries CE. Other ancient names used to refer to Sri Lanka included Serendip in Arabic, Persian, Turkic (Serendib/Särändib...
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