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Universities cover entire country

January 1, 1959 saw two new universities being established in Sri Lanka after 17 years. It was also significant that these two universities had existed as institutes of Buddhist & Oriental Studies from the 1870s, mainly for the Buddhist clergy. It was the day that the Vidyodaya and Vidyalankara Pirivenas were upgraded to university status.

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