• 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Anglo-Burmese in Myanmar and Burghers in Sri Lanka. The first use of "Anglo-Indian" was to describe all British people who lived in India. People of mixed British...
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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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  • 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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    Jacqueline Fernandez (category Burgher people)
    in a multi-ethnic family. Her father, Elroy Fernandez, is a Sri Lankan Burgher, and her mother, Kim, is of Malaysian and Canadian descent. Her maternal...
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  • Portuguese Burghers sometimes mixed with but are to be distinguished from other Burgher people, such as Dutch Burghers. The Portuguese Burghers are largely...
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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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  • List of Sri Lankans by ethnicity (category Sri Lankan people by descent)
    The following is a list of Sri Lankans by ethnicity. List of Sri Lankan people...
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  • Ramani Bartholomeusz (category Burgher people)
    Ramani Elizabeth Bartholomeusz (Sinhala: රමනී බර්තෝලමියුස්; 1 September 1966 – 30 June 1987) was a Sri Lankan actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder...
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    to the Sri Lankan Love cake baked during Christmas by the Eurasian Burgher people, which uses cashew as opposed to almonds.[9] In 2020, Shake Shack adapted...
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    Free Burghers (Dutch: Vrijburgher, Afrikaans: Vryburger) were early European settlers in the 18th century who had been released of their service contracts...
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  • Vivimarie Vanderpoorten (category Burgher people)
    Vivimarie VanderPoorten is a Sri Lankan poet. Her book Nothing Prepares You won the 2007 Gratiaen Prize. She was also awarded the 2009 SAARC Poetry Award...
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  • ethnic minorities include the Sri Lankan Moors, Sri Lankan Tamils and Burgher people. The following Table summarizes the population of Mawathagama according...
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    Dav Whatmore (category Burgher people)
    Davenell Frederick Whatmore (born 16 March 1954) is a Sri Lanka born Australian cricket coach and former cricketer. A right-handed batsman, Whatmore played...
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    Michael Ondaatje (category Burgher people)
    Lanka, in 1943, to Major Mervyn Ondaatje and Doris Gratiaen of Tamil and Burgher descent (Dutch and Sinhalese). In 1954, he re-joined his mother in England...
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    customs with vigour. Most Anglo-Burmans (unlike Anglo-Indians and the Burgher people in Sri Lanka) were able to trace at least a grandparent, if not a parent...
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    Anglo-Burmese people - ethnic group from Myanmar Burgher people - ethnic group from Sri Lanka Filipino mestizo - ethnic group from the Philippines Indo people - ethnic...
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    staple. Frikkadel are also popular in Sri Lankan cuisine by way of the Burgher people. Traditionally, frikkadels are eaten alone or with a sauce served with...
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  • Christopher Ondaatje (category Burgher people)
    (now Sri Lanka) to Major Mervyn Ondaatje and Doris Gratiaen, a Chetty-Burgher family of Dutch and Indian origin, Ondaatje first went to S. Thomas' Preparatory...
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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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  • ancestry Indo people, of mixed Dutch and Indonesian descent Luso-Asians, umbrella term for people of mixed Portuguese and Asian descent Burgher people in Sri...
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  • Bangladeshi-Armenians Burgher people French-Indian Luso-Indian Bangladeshi Chinese Indian Chinese Pakistani Chinese Sri Lankan Chinese Hunza people Kusunda Nahali...
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  • Duncan White (category Burgher people)
    Authority control databases: People World Athletics...
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  • Lankan Moors, an ethnic minority Sri Lankan Malays, an ethnic minority Burgher people, an ethnic minority Sri Lankan culture Sri Lankan cuisine SriLankan...
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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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  • of the Burgher community, who are descendants of the Portuguese and Dutch who founded families in Sri Lanka. Europeans, Eurasians and Burghers account...
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  • Carl Muller (category Burgher people)
    Sri Lankan writer, poet and journalist best known for his trilogy about Burghers in Sri Lanka: The Jam Fruit Tree, Yakada Yaka and Once Upon A Tender Time...
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    David de Kretser (category Burgher people)
    David Morritz de Kretser, AC, FAA, FTSE, FAHMS (born 27 April 1939) is an Australian medical researcher who served as the 27th Governor of Victoria, from...
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