A Byzantine named Sopater visited it in the sixth century AD, while Pliny the Elder called it the land of the Antichthones and told of an envoy from it that visited the court of Claudius.
A Byzantine named Sopater visited it in the sixth century AD, while Pliny the Elder called it the land of the Antichthones and told of an envoy from it that visited the court of Claudius. Legend held that its natives descended from Prince Vijaya and his court at Sinhapura and converted to Buddhism by the third century B.C. Under Kasappa V it sent troops to save the Pandya kingdom from conquest, resulting in a defeat at Vellur, and decades later, this land would be itself conquered by Rajaraja I of the Chola Dynasty. The 1505 sailing expedition of Lourenco de Almeida marked the first major Western presence here, and eventually the initial Portuguese colonists would be supplanted by the Dutch and then the British. Finally gaining independence in the 20th Century through various independence movements by the Sinhalese ethnic majority, this is, FTP, what island located south of the Indian subcontinent?
A Byzantine named Sopater visited it in the sixth century AD, while Pliny the Elder called it the land of the Antichthones and told of an envoy from it that visited the court of Claudius.
{Ceylon} or {Sri Lanka}