Portuguese Ceylon (Portuguese: Ceilão Português; Sinhala: පෘතුගීසි ලංකාව; Tamil: போர்த்துக்கேய இலங்கை) is the name given to the territory on Ceylon, modern-day...

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...

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...

Pieris and Donald Ferguson. PORTUGUESE CEYLON AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: A SKETCH "Sri Lanka – Ceylon". Ngw.nl. Retrieved 17 August...

substantial European Portuguese words in their grammars or lexicons: Ceylon Portuguese creole (Sri Lanka) Damaon and Dio Portuguese creole Kristi language...

captured Malacca, Ceylon, the Malabar Coast, and the Moluccas. In Africa, the Dutch conquered the Portuguese Gold Coast. Portuguese resentment at Spain...

Marlyn (2005). A history of Portuguese overseas expansion, 1400–1668. New York: Routledge. p. 234. Tennent, James (1860). Ceylon: an account of the island...

captain-majors of Portuguese Ceylon (1551–1594) List of governors of Portuguese Ceylon (1594–1658) List of governors of Dutch Ceylon (1640–1796) Governors...

Sri Lanka (then known to Europeans as Ceylon) between the native Sinhalese and Tamil kingdoms and the Portuguese Empire. It spanned from the Transitional...

Dom João Dharmapala handed it over to the Portuguese, thus leading to the formation of Portuguese Ceylon. The remainder was annexed into Sitawaka and...