• Look up Burgher or burgher in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Burgher may refer to: Burgher (social class), a medieval, early modern European title of...
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  • Burgher people, also known simply as Burghers, are a small Eurasian ethnic group in Sri Lanka descended from Portuguese, Dutch, British and other Europeans...
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    The Burghers of Calais (French: Les Bourgeois de Calais) is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin in twelve original castings and numerous copies. It commemorates...
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    Burgher was a rank or title of a privileged citizen of a medieval to early modern European town. Burghers formed the pool from which city officials could...
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    Free Burghers (Dutch: Vrijburgher, Afrikaans: Vryburger) were early European colonists in the 18th century who had been released of their service contracts...
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    Grand Burgher [male] or Grand Burgheress [female] (from German: Großbürger [male], Großbürgerin [female]) is a specific conferred or inherited title of...
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  • ancient city-states, giving rise to a civitas and the social class of the burgher or bourgeoisie. Since then states have expanded the status of citizenship...
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  • The Dutch Burghers are an ethnic group in Sri Lanka, of mixed Dutch, Portuguese Burgher and Sri Lankan descent. However, they are a different community...
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  • Michelle Burgher (born 12 March 1977 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. She was a bronze medalist...
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  • Lennox G. Burgher (born 17 March 1946) is a Jamaican athlete. He competed in the men's triple jump at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Burgher is from Kingston...
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  • Niesha Burgher (born 8 August 2002) is a Jamaican sprinter. She finished third at the Jamaican national championships over 200 metres in 2024. From St...
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    The Anti-Burghers were opponents of the Burgher Oath on theological grounds. In 1733 the First Secession from the Church of Scotland resulted in the creation...
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  • The Portuguese Burghers are an ethnic group in Sri Lanka, of mixed Portuguese and Sri Lankan descent. They are largely Catholic and some still speak the...
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    Africa, a burgher was a fully enfranchised citizen. Burgher rights were restricted to white men, in particular Boers. Historically Burgher refers to a...
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    Burgher arms or bourgeois arms are coats of arms borne by persons of the burgher social class of Europe since the Middle Ages (usually called bourgeois...
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    burghers, except leaders, who took an oath of neutrality and returned quietly to their homes. It is estimated that between 12,000 and 14,000 burghers...
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    Michael Burghers (b. c.1647/8 – 1727) was a Dutch illustrator and artist of the 17th century, who spent most of his career in England. He was commissioned...
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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 (DBU)...
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  • This is a list of notable Burgher people, who are a Eurasian ethnic group, historically from Sri Lanka, consisting for the most part of male-line descendants...
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    original on 6 June 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013. Burgher, Leslie. "Norwegian Architecture". Leslie Burgher website. Archived from the original on 12 October...
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  • In the Scottish church of the 18th and 19th centuries, a burgher was a person who upheld the lawfulness of the burgess oath. The burgess oath was the...
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  • Burgher Recreation Club is a first-class cricket and hockey club based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The club was founded on 26 December 1896 known as the Bambalapitya...
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  • Neil Burgher Ward (June 26, 1914 – April 12, 1972) was an American meteorologist who is credited as the first scientific storm chaser, developing ideas...
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    "The Respectable Burgher on The Higher Criticism" is a poem by Thomas Hardy. It was originally published in 1901 in his collection Poems of the Past and...
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    history. Other long-established groups include the Moors, Indian Tamils, Burghers, Malays, Chinese, and Vedda. Sri Lanka's documented history goes back 3...
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  • used in the medieval and early modern period to designate someone of the burgher class. It originally meant a freeman of a borough or burgh but later came...
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  • Andrew Burgher Michael Ker (born 16 October 1954 in Kelso, Scottish Borders) is a former Scotland international rugby union and former Scotland international...
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  • "The Weeping Burgher" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. Originally published in 1919, it is in the public domain. The...
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  • The Catholic Burgher Union is an organisation of Portuguese Burghers (persons of mixed Portuguese and Sri Lankan descent) in the town of Batticaloa, Sri...
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  • Burger's Daughter is a political and historical novel by the South African Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Nadine Gordimer, first published in the United...
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