Sri Lanka is an island country in the Indian Ocean off the southern tip of India. This country has more than 2,550 years of continuous written history. Ramayana is the most famous epic about Sri Lana where the countryÊwas referredÊto as Lanka, was the empire of king Ravana.ÊÊBuddhism was introducedÊin about mid-3rd century BC after SinhaleseÊarrived inÊ6th century BC. Sri Lanka became a British colony in 1802. In May 2009 government military forces defeated the Tamil Tigers' separatist movement and ended a brutal 26 year-long war that began in 1983, leading to the beginning of a new chapter for the country.