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    Dutch Ceylon (Sinhala: ලන්දේසි ලංකාව; Tamil: ஒல்லாந்த இலங்கை) was a governorate established in present-day Sri Lanka by the Dutch East India Company....
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    British Ceylon (Sinhala: බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය ලංකාව, romanized: Britānya Laṃkāva; Tamil: பிரித்தானிய இலங்கை, romanized: Biritthāṉiya Ilaṅkai), officially British...
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  • Ceylon Creole Dutch is an extinct Dutch-based creole language. It was used in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), which was a Dutch colony from 1658 to 1796. Ceylon...
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  • of Dutch Ceylon. The Dutch arrived on the island of Ceylon on 2 May 1639. Parts of the island were incorporated as a colony administered by the Dutch East...
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    authority ruling all Dutch India. Instead, Dutch India was divided into the governorates Dutch Ceylon and Dutch Coromandel, the commandment Dutch Malabar, and...
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    here for more examples..... Portuguese India Dutch Ceylon British Ceylon Sinhalese–Portuguese War Ceylon and the Portuguese, 1505–1658 (1920). Author:...
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    Sri Lanka (redirect from Ceylon)
    Sinhalese-Portuguese war, the Dutch colonial empire and the Kingdom of Kandy took control of those areas. Dutch Ceylon was taken by the British Empire...
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  • Portuguese Ceylon (1551–1594) List of governors of Portuguese Ceylon (1594–1658) List of governors of Dutch Ceylon (1640–1796) Governors of British Ceylon (1798–1948)...
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  • Burgher people (category Dutch diaspora in Asia)
    Lanka descended from Portuguese, Dutch, British and other Europeans who settled in Ceylon. The Portuguese and Dutch had held some of the maritime provinces...
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    favourite method of the King to harass the Dutch. Throughout the eighteenth century, the demand for cinnamon from Ceylon outstripped the supply, and its quality...
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  • The Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon (abbreviated as: DBUC; Dutch: Hollandsche Burgher Vereeniging van Ceylon), known commonly as the Dutch Burgher Union...
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    colonies on the Indian Ocean island of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and a British invasion force sent from British India. The Dutch Republic had been a British ally...
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    (1630–1654) Dutch Mauritius (1638–1710) Dutch Ceylon (1640–1796) Dutch Cape Colony (1652–1806) Dutch Malabar (1665–1795) Dutch Surinam (1667–1954) New Holland (Acadia)...
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    of Education, Sri Lanka. Central Bank of Ceylon Armorial Ensign of Sri Lanka – 1977. Central Bank of Ceylon Sri Lanka Emblem Archived 25 February 2021...
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    Rajpal Kumar; Beumer, Willemina G. M. (1998). Illustrations and Views of Dutch Ceylon, 1602-1796 A Comprehensive Work of Pictorial Reference with Selected...
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  • indicate past tense Ceylon Creole Dutch Sri Lanka Kaffir people Portuguese period in Ceylon Burgher people Dutch period in Ceylon Indo-Portuguese (Sri...
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    Dutch and British. Between 1597 and 1658, a substantial part of the island was under Portuguese rule. The Portuguese lost their possessions in Ceylon...
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  • – Flag of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Modified flag of the Dominion of Ceylon. Used since the proclamation of the Republic in 1972....
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    the idol of the main deity of the temple, and took it back to Galle, Dutch Ceylon. The local governor Vadamalaiyappan Pillai created new idols and took...
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    Ceylon was an independent country in the Commonwealth of Nations from 1948 to 1972, that shared a monarch with other dominions of the Commonwealth. In...
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  • republic in 1972. Ceylon may also refer to: Portuguese Ceylon (Ceilão), a Portuguese colony between 1505 and 1658 Dutch Ceylon (Zeylan), a Dutch East India Company...
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    Vryburghers imported slaves from Madagascar, Mozambique and Asia (Dutch East Indies and Dutch Ceylon), which rapidly increased the number of inhabitants. After...
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    Lamprais (category Dutch Ceylon)
    glutinous rice wrapped in a banana leaf. The Dutch in Dutch Ceylon are likely to have adapted this dish from the Dutch East Indies in the early 16th century...
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    Tuticorin, which was governed from Dutch Ceylon until 1796, but became a residency of Dutch Coromandel in 1817 after Ceylon was relinquished to the British...
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    Illustrations and Views of Dutch Ceylon, 1602-1796, pp. 351-352. Brill Archive, 1988. ISBN 9004089799 An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon at Project Gutenberg...
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    the Dutch Cape Colony, Dutch Guyana, the Dutch East Indies, Dutch Ceylon and the Dutch West Indies. New Holland continued to be used semi-officially and...
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    Indies, Dutch Coromandel in 1806–1825, Dutch Suratte in 1616-1825 Dutch Bengal from 1827 to 1825, Dutch Ceylon from 1640 to 1796, and Dutch Malabar from...
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    (Tamil: இலங்கை தமிழர், ilankai tamiḻar or ஈழத் தமிழர், īḻat tamiḻar), also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to the South Asian island state...
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    full control of Dutch India. In early 1782 British Admiral Sir Edward Hughes captured Trincomalee on the eastern coast of Dutch Ceylon, considered to be...
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    Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff (category Governors of Dutch Ceylon)
    – 1 November 1750) was a Dutch colonial administrator for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He served as Governor of Ceylon from 1736 to 1740 and as...
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