Taproban

Sri Lanka (; ), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in the northern Indian Ocean which has been known under various names over time.
The oldest recorded name of Sri Lanka is Tamraparni (= Taprobane). Six centuries before Christ, it was named SimhalamM. M. M. Mahroof, An Ethnological Survey of the Muslims of Sri Lanka: From Earliest Times to Independence, Sir Razik Fareed Foundation, 1986, p. XVI (Simhala J. Dodiya, Critical Perspectives... plus