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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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  • past tense Sri Lanka Kaffir people Portuguese period in Ceylon Burgher people Dutch period in Ceylon Indo-Portuguese (Sri Lanka) at Ethnologue (25th ed.,...
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    included the whole island of Ceylon, now the nation of Sri Lanka. Before the beginning of the Dutch governance, the island of Ceylon was divided between the...
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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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  • 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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  • "Dutch Burgher Union". Wolvendaal The VOC and Human Heritage in Sri Lanka: the Dutch Burghers of Ceylon, 1640–2014 History of the Dutch in Ceylon (Sri...
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    Dutch-Sri Lankan people known as Burgher people are the legacy of Dutch rule. In 1669, the British sea captain Robert Knox landed by chance on Ceylon...
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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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  • 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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    (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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