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Galle

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Galle  (gäl, gl)
A city of southern Sri Lanka on the Indian Ocean. It was a trade center for the Chinese and Arabs by 100 b.c. and later flourished as a Portuguese and Dutch port. Population: 90,300.
Galle [ˈgɔːl]
n
(Placename) a port in SW Sri Lanka. Pop.: 123 616 (1997 est.) Former name Point de Galle


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Of all the boys hurrying back to St Xavier's, from Sukkur in the sands to Galle beneath the palms, none was so filled with virtue as Kimball O'Rara, jiggeting down to Umballa behind Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, whose name on the books of one section of the Ethnological Survey was R.
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