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    SinhalesePortuguese conflicts refers to the series of armed engagements that took place from 1518 AD to 1658 AD in Sri Lanka (then known to Europeans...
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    Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–1560) Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1586–1589) Sinhalese-Portuguese conflicts Ottoman embassy to Aceh Acehnese conquest of Perak...
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    Acehnese-Portuguese conflicts Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–1560) Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1586–1589) Sinhalese-Portuguese conflicts Luso-Asians Kristang...
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    India Company SinhalesePortuguese conflicts Acehnese–Portuguese conflicts Malay–Portuguese conflicts Portuguese–Safavid wars Ottoman–Portuguese confrontations...
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    Mughal-Portuguese conflicts Ottoman-Portuguese conflicts (1538-1560) Ottoman-Portuguese conflicts (1586-1589) Sinhalese-Portuguese conflicts Deccan sultanates...
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  • Mewar-Malwa Conflict Babur's First Indian Expedition Gujarati-Portuguese conflicts Portuguese conquest of Goa Mamluk-Portuguese conflicts Sinhalese-Portuguese conflicts...
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    The Sinhalese people (Sinhala: සිංහල ජනතාව, romanized: Sinhala Janathāva), also known as the Sinhalese or Sinhala people are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic...
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    Mamluk-Portuguese conflicts Ottoman-Portuguese conflicts (1538-1560) Acehnese-Portuguese conflicts Sinhalese-Portuguese conflicts Malay-Portuguese conflicts Fort São...
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  • Indo-Portuguese language, a creole based on Portuguese mixed with Sinhalese. In modern times, English has become the common language while Sinhalese is...
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  • The following is a list of wars involving Portugal. Military history of Portugal Unofficial Portuguese soldiers just helped the Zamorin. See also: Auxiliary...
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    Conquest of Koneswaram Temple (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
    the Portuguese Empire had started to intervene in internal Sinhalese politics by taking advantage of the rivalries and animosities among the Sinhalese kingdoms...
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    This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving former kingdoms and states in the Indian subcontinent and the...
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    Sinhala kingdom or Sinhalese kingdom refers to the successive Sinhalese kingdoms that existed in what is today Sri Lanka. The Sinhalese kingdoms are kingdoms...
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    Siege of Colombo (1587–1588) (category Portuguese Ceylon)
    siege of Colombo from 1587 to 1588 was a military conflict between the Portuguese and the Sinhalese troops of the King of Sitawaka, for possession of...
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    The Portuguese founded a fort at the port city of Colombo in 1517 and gradually extended their control over the coastal areas. In 1592, the Sinhalese moved...
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  • Jorge de Meneses Baroche (category 16th-century Portuguese people)
    succeeded by Baltasar Guedes de Sousa. Gujarati-Portuguese conflicts Sinhalese-Portuguese conflicts Cahoon, Ben. "Captains-major". Sri Lanka. Worldstatesmen...
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    Salvador Ribeiro de Sousa (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
    Discourse "Ronfe · Ronfe, Portugal". Do Couto, Diogo. Da Ásia [From Asia] (in Portuguese). "Sinhalese-Portuguese Conflicts". Wikipedia. "Convention of...
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    The monarchs of Sri Lanka, also referred to as the Sinhalese monarchy, were the heads of state and rulers of the Sinhala Kingdoms located in present-day...
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    Roland Crappé's raids on Portuguese colonies (Danish; Roland Crappés plyndringer på portugisiske kolonier: Portuguese; Os ataques de Roland Crappé às colónias...
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    The Portuguese founded a fort at the port city of Colombo in 1517 and gradually extended their control over the coastal areas. In 1592 the Sinhalese moved...
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    Practitioners of Sri Lankan Buddhism can be found amongst the majority Sinhalese population as well as among the minority ethnic groups. Sri Lankan Buddhists...
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    either Sinhalese or Sri Lankan Tamil". The concentration of Moors is the highest in the Ampara, Trincomalee and Batticaloa districts. The Portuguese called...
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    João da Silveira (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
    João da Silva) was the first Captain of Portuguese Ceylon. Silveira was appointed in 1518 under Manuel I of Portugal. He was succeeded by Lopo de Brito. (João...
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  • Loanwords in Sri Lankan Tamil (category Portuguese language lists)
    directly introduced from South America via the Portuguese traders. Most of these words are also shared with Sinhalese language users. Sri Lankan Tamil dialects...
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    armed conflict: "State-based" conflicts, those that involved the Government of Sri Lanka against rebel groups(LTTE and the JVP), "Non-state" conflicts, those...
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    Sri Lanka subsequently becoming a Portuguese possession. After the Sinhalese-Portuguese war, the Dutch colonial empire and the Kingdom of Kandy took control...
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  • state-sponsored colonization schemes is the government program of settling mostly Sinhalese farmers from the densely populated wet zone into the sparsely populated...
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  • is a list of wars and conflicts in Asia, particularly East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Russia. For a list of conflicts in Southwest Asia, Asia...
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  • Battle of Mulleriyawa (category Conflicts in 1562)
    of the SinhalesePortuguese War. It was one of the most decisive battles in Sri Lankan history and considered as the worst defeat of Portuguese during...
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    Jaffna (category 1621 establishments in the Portuguese Empire)
    in other sources as Yalpaanam in Tamil and Yapaapatuna in Sinhalese. From 1590, Portuguese merchants and Catholic missionaries were active within the...
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