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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A town of north-central Sri Lanka north-northeast of Colombo. The ancient capital of Sinhalese kings of Ceylon, it has extensive ruins and is a Buddhist pilgrimage center. Population: 53,200.
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“Reuters ROUGH TERRAIN: People stood Monday where a dam used to be before it was destroyed in Sri Lanka's Anuradhapura district.”
“Tennekoon was born in the City of Kings, Anuradhapura, and became a boarder at St Thomas' College, one of Colombo's most renowned private schools, at an early age.”
The Guardian: The speech that set free Sri Lanka cricket and glued a troubled nation | David Hopps
“Gemunu Amarasinghe/Associated Press Dancers performed during a parade celebrating Sri Lanka's 64th Independence Day, marking the country's independence from British colonial rule in 1948, in Anuradhapura, about 80 kilometers 50 miles north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday.”
“You'd be more comfortable in Anuradhapura town, initially.”
“But her boy friend hadn't been; he'd taken pesticide, almost at the same time, and he died two days later in the Anuradhapura hospital, insides corroded, begging, crying, screaming for water, he couldn't even drink.”
“Anuradhapura was the only place in the wider vicinity Iqbal really knew, he realized, one place he had actually stayed.”
“And some of the girls tried the garment factories in the big city until they got married, or worse, brothels for the soldiers in Anuradhapura.”
“ “I could get a place in Anuradhapura, right?””
“ Krishna shook his head, remembering the ride yesterday on the bad, pot holed road, after they turned at Kekirawe, off the Dambulla — Anuradhapura road, and then past the little town of Kalawawe, turning into beautiful, red earth, country lanes.”
“But Iqbal said nothing on that, asking instead, “That place we went to, is it far from Anuradhapura town?””
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