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    Portuguese Ceylon (Portuguese: Ceilão Português; Sinhala: පෘතුගීසි ලංකාව; Tamil: போர்த்துக்கேய இலங்கை) is the name given to the territory on Ceylon, modern-day...
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    of the island. Dutch Ceylon existed from 1640 until 1796. In the early 17th century, Sri Lanka was partly ruled by the Portuguese and partly by Sri Lankan...
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    island of Ceylon, now the nation of Sri Lanka. Before the beginning of the Dutch governance, the island of Ceylon was divided between the Portuguese Empire...
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    Pieris and Donald Ferguson. PORTUGUESE CEYLON AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: A SKETCH "Sri Lanka - Ceylon". Ngw.nl. Retrieved 17 August...
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    captured Malacca, Ceylon, the Malabar Coast, and the Moluccas. In Africa the Dutch conquered the Portuguese Gold Coast. Portuguese resentment at Spain...
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  • substantial European Portuguese words in their grammars or lexicons: Ceylon Portuguese creole (Sri Lanka) Damaon and Dio Portuguese creole Kristi language...
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    Sinhalese–Portuguese conflicts refers to the series of armed engagements that took place from 1518 to 1658 in Sri Lanka (then known to Europeans as Ceylon) between...
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    Periodization of Sri Lanka history: The first Europeans to visit Ceylon in modern times were the Portuguese: Lourenço de Almeida arrived in 1505, finding the island...
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    the Portuguese overthrew the sinhala monarchy based on sri jayawardanapura kotte leading to the reigon falling into the hands of the portuguese and the...
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    Dom João Dharmapala handed it over to the Portuguese, thus leading to the formation of Portuguese Ceylon. The remainder was annexed into Sitwaka and...
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