Ep 2: History of the Muslims of Sri Lanka - Ptolemy's Map

This is Episode 2 of a series of videos created based on research done on the History of Muslims of Sri Lanka.
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This series intended for public awareness, aims to include Historical Narrations of the Contributions made by the Muslims of Sri Lanka towards Harmony, Peace, Development, and Prosperity of Sri Lanka.
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[@t.b.ibrahim2850]

Mashallah Very Useful and Informative that every Citizen in this country should know. Keep continuing this extremely important and valuable History of Muslims in Sri Lanka. Jazakallah Khair

[@rifayaramzee4057]

Masahallah very useful informative that every citizen in this country keep it up.

[@AaminaMuhsin]

@@rifayaramzee4057 Thank you!

[@AaminaMuhsin]

@T.B. Ibrahim Thank you so much!

[@Zah-yq5qn]

I will subscribe you because I was waiting for it for long. Just to determine what I knew is correct.

[@Hassen7861]

Great scholarship

[@AaminaMuhsin]

Thank You!!

[@thisarunawarathne944]

The Mahavamsa refers to two visits by ‘Yona’ to ancient Sri Lanka. Mahavamsa says that Pandukabhaya (pre- 3rd century BC) set apart grounds near the west gate of Anuradhapura for the ‘Yona’. That is the first visit. Several centuries later, in the time of Dutugemunu (167-131 BC) Yona bhikkus arrived to celebrate the completion of the Mahathupa. That is the second. Researchers have queried whether these Yonas were Greeks. Merlin Peris, Emeritus professor of Western Classics, University of Peradeniya, who researched into the two visits, is very definite that ‘Yona’ refers to Greeks and not any other group. The word ‘Yona’ is derived from ‘Ionian’, the Persian word for Greeks. ‘It was known before Pandukabhaya’s time. Dipawamsa refers to a famine of Yonaka in an earlier world cycle. India’s Sanskrit grammarian Panini (4th century BC) spoke of the Yavana script. The Mahavamsa Greeks (Yona) came from northwestern India. They may have got there in the time of the Persian king Cyrus, (559- 529 BC) Darius (522-486 BC) or Xerxes (486-465 BC). But the preferred idea is that they went there with Alexander of Macedon who invaded the Indus delta between 327-303 BC. Alexander went home, the Greeks stayed on. Seleucus Nicator, a general in Alexander’s army took over the lands conquered by Alexander. Merlin Peris observed that Pandukabhaya’s period of rule in Sri Lanka fitted in with the Alexander- Seleucid period in India. He suggests that Pandukabhaya’s city planning did not end after the first ten years, as Mahavamsa said. It continued and the Greek settlers came in the last two decades of his rule. The journey would have been easy. The sea route was well known and well used by then. These Greek settlers were not second or third generation ‘Indo-Greeks’. They were first-generation native Greeks, who had left Greece (also Macedonia and Ionia) only two decades before. They were, therefore, the first Europeans to visit Sri Lanka www.srilankaguardian.org/2014/09/greek-settlements-influence-in-ancient.html#:~:text=Perhaps%20there%20was%20a%20pocket,Greek%20were%20found%20in%20Kandahar.

[@shareefanassar5807]

I've been to Deduru Oya many times Little known fact that it was used as a trade route by the Arabs.

[@AaminaMuhsin]

I know right?! There's so much to learn! 💐

[@khp7425]

Yonas are greeks not arabs.today the word yonake is mistakenly used for arabs.

[@DDMS1988]

Arabics but not muslims