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  2. Love cake - Wikipedia

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    Love cake or Bolo di Amor, is a type of semolina cake eaten in Sri Lanka on special occasions. [1] They are often baked for cultural celebrations such as Christmas, [2] birthdays and weddings, served wrapped in gold paper for guests to eat or take home. [3]

  3. Semolina - Wikipedia

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    In Nepal, semolina is called suji and is used for preparing sweet dishes such as haluwa or puwa. In Myanmar (Burma), semolina (called shwegyi) is used in a popular dessert called sanwin makin. In Sri Lanka semolina is called rulan and used to make creamy porridge and a sweet confectionery called "rulan aluwa".

  4. List of Sri Lankan sweets and desserts - Wikipedia

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    The most popular dessert among Sri Lankan Muslims during Ramadan. Commonly served at weddings, parties and other special ceremonies. Buffalo curd: Buffalo milk, starter culture Popular in southern Sri Lanka for weddings, alms, and as a household dessert. Semolina and jaggery pudding Semolina, jaggery, milk, spices cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla

  5. Bibikkan - Wikipedia

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    Bibikkan is believed to have been introduced to Sri Lanka by the Portuguese, who colonised the coastal areas of the island in 1505 and remained until 1658. [5] Goan Catholics serve a similar dish called Bebinca, [6] which is almost identical to Bibingka, a traditional Filipino rice flour cake made with coconut milk, which is served on Christmas Day. [7]

  6. Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka, [b] historically known as Ceylon, [c] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.

  7. Names of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    The Ramayana Lanka began to be considered as the present-day Sri Lanka between the 10th [34] and the 12th centuries CE. [3] Then from the 16th century, in opposition to colonization, the assertion that the Ramayana Lanka was the present-day Sri Lanka became part of the Sinhalese Buddhist mythology, [ 34 ] and started to be used by locals in ...

  8. History of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Mahinda Rajapaksa, former Sri Lankan president and brother of current president, became the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. [ 83 ] Since 2010, Sri Lanka has witnessed a sharp rise in foreign debt [ 84 ] The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic -induced global recession accelerated the crisis and by 2021, the foreign debt rose to 101% of the nation's ...

  9. Geography of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    More than 90% of Sri Lanka's surface lies on Precambrian strata, some of it dating back 2 billion years. [6] The granulite facies rocks of the Highland Series (gneisses, sillimanite-graphite gneisses, quartzite, marbles, and some charnockites) make up most of the island and the amphibolite facies gneisses, granites, and granitic gneisses of the Vijayan Series occur in the eastern and ...