The history of Sri Lanka covers Sri Lanka and the history of the Indian subcontinent and its surrounding regions of South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean. Prehistoric Sri Lanka goes back 125,000 years and possibly even as far back as 500,000 years. [1] The earliest humans found in Sri Lanka date to Prehistoric times about 35,000 years ...

In the colonial period started from 1505 AD, many Historical Sri Lankan Maps were created, and as time goes on the accuracy of the maps increased. Good collections of Historical Sri Lankan maps are available in Netherland and Britain.

history of Sri Lanka, a survey of the notable events and people in the history of Sri Lanka from ancient times to the present day. The country, formerly known as Ceylon, is an island lying in the Indian Ocean and separated from peninsular India by the Palk Strait.

2025年2月21日 · Sri Lanka, island country lying in the Indian Ocean and separated from peninsular India by the Palk Strait. Proximity to the Indian subcontinent has facilitated close cultural interaction between Sri Lanka and India from ancient times.

The cartography of Sri Lanka is the history of the surveying and creation of maps of Sri Lanka. A list of maps of Sri Lanka in chronological order is shown below.

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Ptolemy’s Sri Lankan Map (Ptolemy Sri Lanka Map) created by Claudius Ptolemy  is the most famous historical map of this island nation. Ptolemy created this map in 139 AD. The Greeks called Sri Lanka Taprobana or Taprobane. Ptolemy got the basic idea of the Sri Lankan map from the known world map created by Eratosthenes.

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Sri Lanka, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Sri Lanka.

Here is Sri Lanka (Taprobane) in the Eratosthenes’ map of the (for the Greeks) known world, c. 194 BC. In the 19th century by Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury, 9th Bt reproduced this map.