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    Taprobana (Latin: Taprobana; Ancient Greek: Ταπροβανᾶ), Trapobana, and Taprobane (Ταπροβανῆ, Ταπροβάνη) was the name by which the Indian Ocean island...
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  • Cleora taprobana is a moth of the family Geometridae described by David Stephen Fletcher in 1953. It is found in Sri Lanka. "Species Details: Cleora taprobana...
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  • was adopted in Pali as Tambaparni. The name was adopted into Greek as Taprobana, used by Megasthenes in the 4th century BC. The Greek name was adopted...
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    Byzantium wrote that there was also another river which was named Phasis, in Taprobana (Ancient Greek: Φᾶσις ἐν τῇ Ταπροβάνῃ) (Ceylon or Sri Lanka). Wikimedia...
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    ("realm of the three crowned Cholas"). Ancient Greek geographers called it Taprobanā (Ancient Greek: Ταπροβανᾶ) or Taprobanē (Ταπροβανῆ) from the word Tambapanni...
    251 KB (21,744 words) - 17:51, 25 April 2024
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    Neasura taprobana is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae first described by George Hampson in 1907. It is found in Sri Lanka. Wikimedia Commons has media...
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    giant serpents which could fight and strangle the elephants of India. At Taprobana (modern Sri Lanka), there were Cetea (sea monsters) with different forms...
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  • Arcte taprobana is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Sri Lanka. "Species Details: Arcte taprobana Moore, 1885". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved...
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  • Rhombodera taprobana)
    Rhombodera taprobanae is a species of praying mantises in the family Mantidae, found in Sri Lanka. List of mantis genera and species "Rhombodera taprobanae"...
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    Philippines. It is smaller and brighter than the European races. A. a. taprobana Kleinschmidt, 1894. Resident breeder in Sri Lanka and southern India....
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  • Compsoctena taprobana is a moth in the Eriocottidae family. It was described by Walsingham in 1887. It is found in Sri Lanka. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M...
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  • plagued Troy before being slain by Heracles. Cetea at Taprobana were sea monsters at Taprobana (modern Sri Lanka). The Dracaenae were monsters that had...
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  • Parantica taprobana)
    The Ceylon tiger (Parantica taprobana) is a species of nymphalid butterfly in the Danainae subfamily. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. Lepidoptera Specialist...
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    Ptolemy's map of Taprobana of 140 CE in a 1562 Ruscelli publication. The islet is called Nagadiba while the Jaffna peninsula is called Nagadiba Maagramum...
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    praia Lusitana, Por mares nunca de antes navegados Passaram ainda além da Taprobana, Em perigos e guerras esforçados, Mais do que prometia a força humana...
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    the Golden Chersonese, the Magnus Sinus, and the Sinae 12th Map of Asia Taprobana The original treatise by Marinus of Tyre that formed the basis of Ptolemy's...
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  • also an old name for Sri Lanka, and the origin of the Greek equivalent Taprobana, possibly referring to the monks who established Buddhism here. The Tāmraśāṭīya...
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  • The resulting ravel account appeared in partial form as De la Thule la Taprobana (1969). Boureanul translated works by Oscar Wilde, Gérard de Nerval, Johann...
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    Caving in SE Asia. Retrieved 2024-04-07. Sebastian Munster (1614) Map of Taprobana. JMBRAS, Vol. 77 Pt. 2, pp. 27–58. Azahari Ibrahim, Kota Purba Linggiu:...
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