Batticaloa
Americannoun
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Moinudeen, an imam from the eastern city of Batticaloa, the site of one of the Easter bombings.
From New York Times • May 5, 2019
Like Negombo, Batticaloa is adorned with banners strung up to commemorate the dead, many of them children.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2019
Even Batticaloa, the east’s second city, seemed stunned into inertia by the sun, while on the outskirts the rice farmers plodded resolutely on, throwing handfuls of seeds across flooded paddies.
From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2016
Vallipuram Amalanayagi, 41, from Batticaloa in the east, said she and her family already knew what was in the report before its publication.
From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2015
I have heard of another near the Patipal Aar south of Batticaloa.
From Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir
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