| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. |
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| Sri Lanka |
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| (sree LAHNG-kuh) Formerly Ceylon, now an island republic in the Indian Ocean just southeast of India. | 1 |
| ‡ A British colony since 1796, the island became independent in 1948. | 2 |
| ‡ Marked by hostility between its Buddhist Sinalese majority and Hindu Tamil minority (see Buddhism and Hinduism). | 3 |
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| | | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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