Nawala (SL)

Sin: නාවල – Tam: நாவல nāvala ‘Elephant Jungle’  WP,  Sri Lanka From Sin: na(ga), ‘elephant’; and val/vala, ‘forest, wood, jungle’. This name dates back to the Kotte kingdom. Nawala is a suburb of Colombo and is called the Ceramics Capital of Sri Lanka. For...