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8 unusual facts about Negombo


Asmeer Lathif Mohamed

Asmeer Lathif Mohamed (born May 3, 1983) is a Sri Lankan footballer currently playing for Negombo Youth SC in Negombo and also is a starter on the Sri Lanka national football team.

Don Bosco SC

Don Bosco Sports Club is a Sri Lankan football club located in Negombo.

Karaoke clubs in Sri Lanka

There are some Karaoke clubs located near Negombo area and most of these clubs actually operates as brothels in those areas.

Leslie Mervyn Jayaratna

Jayaratne joined the Sri Lankan Judiciary in 1971 as Magistrate and his first posting being in Negombo.

Rawan Nada

The recording sessions for Ravana Nada took place at the Dee R Cee studio in Negombo and Penguin Studio in Colombo.

Thomas Cooray

Thomas Cooray was born to a poor but religious family in Negombo, and attended St. Aloysius Seminary in Borella, and St. Joseph's College and University College in Colombo before going to Rome, where he studied at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), obtaining a doctorate in philosophy summa cum laude.

Tomé Pires

Pires mentioned several Tamil cities of Ceylon he visited on his travels in the manuscript, including Kali, Nigumbo, Celabão and Tenavarque, home to the renowned temple complex of Tenavarai.

University of Santo Tomas

The University has started to develop upcoming campuses in Santa Rosa City (60 hectares), General Santos City (80 hectares), and Negombo, Sri Lanka, (5 hectares).


Chathura Gunaratne

Despite winning two trophies in two seasons at Negombo Youth, Gunaratne moved on to Ratnam Sports Club, the 2006–07 Kit Premier League champions.

Gunaratne left Negombo at the end of the 2008–09 season to join another Negomobo-based club in Don Bosco SC, who had just finished second in "Segment B".

Mabola, Sri Lanka

Rawlathus Saliheen Ahadiya School is conducted in mabole.As sinhala medium schools in mabola are St.Mary's Maha Vidyalaya and Sri Siddhartha Maha Vidyalaya.There is only one Tamil medium Muslim school Al-Asraff Maha Vidyalaya.Mabole is next to hendala.It's located in Negombo road and it's the route for travel to Bandaranaike International Airport.

Marawila

It is located on the (A3) main road that connects the city of Negombo with Chilaw town.

Negombo Tamil

Negombo Tamil dialect, a language dialect used by the fishers of Negombo, Sri Lanka

Shalani Tharaka

After the primary education she moved to her mother’s hometown Negombo and had her secondary education there onwards at Newstead Girls College which became an opportunity for her to brighten up her dancing skills in western and Kandyan dancing styles.


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