Portuguese Burghers. Originally an entirely Protestant community, many Burghers today remain Christian but belong to a variety of denominations. The Dutch Burghers...

Burgher people, also known simply as Burghers, are a small Eurasian ethnic group in Sri Lanka descended from Portuguese, Dutch, British and other Europeans...

contracts to the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and had become full citizens (burghers). The introduction of Free Burghers to the Dutch Cape Colony is regarded...

Portuguese Burghers sometimes mixed with but are to be distinguished from other Burgher people, such as Dutch Burghers. The Portuguese Burghers are largely...

known commonly as the Dutch Burgher Union (DBU), is an organisation of Dutch Burghers in Sri Lanka. It was established on 18 January 1908 by Richard Gerald...

the coast of Sri Lanka was under Dutch rule. The Dutch Burghers (an ethnic group of mixed Dutch, Portuguese Burghers and Sri Lankan descent) came up with...

was also attended by the children of the indigenes and the Free Burghers. The Dutch language was taught at schools as the main medium for commercial...

its importance in the social lives of 17th-century Dutch burghers. The physical space of the Dutch home was constructed along gender lines. In the front...

Bürgher 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...

Governor. Dutch Ceylon was administered by a Governor appointed by the Governor General of the Dutch East Indies. Many of the Dutch Burghers migrated to...

The Dutch diaspora consists of the Dutch and their descendants living outside the Netherlands. Emigration from the Netherlands has been occurring for since...

of representatives of the Dutch East India Company and free burghers gathered to discuss the protest made by the free burgher farmers. The Company was...

legally coequal "burghers" started to split into three different groups: hereditary grand-burghers, ordinary burghers termed petty-burghers (German Kleinbürger...

following decade, pressure on the Khoikhoi grew as more of the Dutch became free burghers, expanded their landholdings, and sought pastureland for their...

author and reality television personality of Sri Lankan / Ceylonese Dutch Burgher descent. She appeared on The Real Housewives of Melbourne in its second...

in meaning to the Germanic term burgher, a formally defined class in medieval German cities (Middle Dutch burgher, Dutch burger and German Bürger). It is...

1302 against the Francophiles, put into power by the French king. The Dutch burghers together defeated the French army at Kortrijk and, in so doing, developed...

of the Burgher community, who are descendants of the Portuguese and Dutch who founded families in Sri Lanka. Europeans, Eurasians and Burghers account...

Sinhala Sri Lanka Dewa, British Sri Lankans, Burghers (including Portuguese Burghers and Dutch Burghers) Buddhism → Theravada Buddhism Siona Tucanoan...

[citation needed] Arasanayagam was considered a Dutch Burgher, a person born out of a marriage between a Dutch person and an Indigenous person.[citation needed]...

President of the Republic of Swellendam. The burghers of Swellendam started to call themselves "national burghers" – after the style of the French Revolution...

the handful of Dutch burghers who rendered loyal service in the battle was Servaas Daniel de Kock. As a reward for his service, the Dutch East India Company...

Dutch colonial empire (Dutch: Nederlandse koloniale rijk) comprised the overseas territories and trading posts controlled and administered by Dutch chartered...

others spoke Dutch. Later, the Burgher community developed into two different communities: the Dutch Burghers and the Portuguese Burghers. The Portuguese...

Union of South Africa. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) first issued land to the Free Burghers in 1657. The Free Burghers established two colonies at...

recapture of Fort James. Before the arrival of the Dutch fleet, the Dutch burghers and 400 Dutch colonists had grown impatient and resentful with English...

Seven United Netherlands (Dutch: Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden), and commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation...

where they fought on the side of the Reformation, fled to Holland, intermarried with Dutch burghers' daughters, picked up the first names of the Low Countries...

London, England in 1946 to a mother of Ceylonese (now Sri Lanki), of Dutch Burghers descent and educated in France, she started her career in her native...

originated within the Burgher community, an ethically mixed population group, with partly European ancestors, including the Dutch Burghers. The cookies are...