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Colombo

(Encyclopedia) Colombo Colombo kəlŭmˈbō [key], largest city (2021 est. metro area pop. 619,000) and former…

Colombo Plan

(Encyclopedia) Colombo Plan, international economic organization created in a cooperative attempt to strengthen the economic and social development of the nations of Southeast Asia and the Pacific.…

Colombo, Emilio

(Encyclopedia) Colombo, EmilioColombo, Emilioāmēˈlyō kōlômˈbō [key], 1920–2013, Italian political leader. He was elected a member of the constituent assembly in 1946 and a parliamentary deputy for…

Sri Jayewardenapura Kotte

(Encyclopedia) Sri Jayewardenapura Kotte, city (1995 est. pop. 114,000), capital of Sri Lanka. A suburb of Colombo (the former capital) previously known as Kotte, the city was designated as the…

Galle

(Encyclopedia) GalleGallegäl [key], city (1995 est. pop. 87,000), capital of Southern prov., extreme S Sri Lanka, on the Indian Ocean. An agricultural market center, it exports tea, rubber, coconut…

Robert of Courtenay

(Encyclopedia) Robert of CourtenayRobert of Courtenaykôrtˈnē, k&oobreve;rtənāˈ [key], d. 1228, Latin emperor of Constantinople (1218–28). His father, Peter of Courtenay, was elected by the Latin…

Sri Lanka Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note Sri Lanka Index: People Government Political Conditions Foreign Relations PEOPLEThe actual origins of the Sinhalese are shrouded in myth. Most believe…

Leslie, Charles Robert

(Encyclopedia) Leslie, Charles RobertLeslie, Charles Robertlĕzˈlē [key], 1794–1859, English painter and writer, b. London. Educated in the United States, he returned to England to study art and to…

Brewer's: John Roberts

(A). An enormous tankard holding enough drink for any ordinary drinker to last through Saturday and Sunday. This measure was introduced into Wales in 1886 to compensate topers for the…