Dutch Ceylon (Sinhala: ලන්දේසි ලංකාව; Tamil: ஒல்லாந்த இலங்கை) was a governorate established in present-day Sri Lanka by the Dutch East India Company....

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...

authority ruling all Dutch India. Instead, Dutch India was divided into the governorates Dutch Ceylon and Dutch Coromandel, the commandment Dutch Malabar, and...

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...

Lanka descended from Portuguese, Dutch, British and other Europeans who settled in Ceylon. The Portuguese and Dutch had held some of the maritime provinces...

favourite method of the King to harass the Dutch. Throughout the eighteenth century, the demand for cinnamon from Ceylon outstripped the supply, and its quality...

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...

(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)...

Tuticorin, which was governed from Dutch Ceylon until 1796, but became a residency of Dutch Coromandel in 1817 after Ceylon was relinquished to the British...

of Education, Sri Lanka. Central Bank of Ceylon Armorial Ensign of Sri Lanka - 1977. Central Bank of Ceylon Sri Lanka Emblem Archived 25 February 2021...

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...

– 1 November 1750) was a Dutch colonial administrator for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He served as Governor of Ceylon from 1736 to 1740 and as...

Rajpal Kumar; Beumer, Willemina G. M. (1998). Illustrations and Views of Dutch Ceylon, 1602-1796 A Comprehensive Work of Pictorial Reference with Selected...

colonies on the Indian Ocean island of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and a British invasion force sent from British India. The Dutch Republic had been a British ally...

Dutch and British. Between 1597 and 1658, a substantial part of the island was under Portuguese rule. The Portuguese lost their possessions in Ceylon...

Ceylon was an independent country in the Commonwealth of Nations from 1948 to 1972, that shared a monarch with other dominions of the Commonwealth. In...

– Flag of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Modified flag of the Dominion of Ceylon. Used since the proclamation of the Republic in 1972....

the Dutch Cape Colony, Dutch Guyana, the Dutch East Indies, Dutch Ceylon and the Dutch West Indies. New Holland continued to be used semi-officially and...

17th century, the bulk of these (300,000) lived on Ceylon, while by the late 18th century, Dutch Ceylon's population was 350,000–817,000 compared to their...

Indic text in this article correctly. Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island...

Vryburghers imported slaves from Madagascar, Mozambique and Asia (Dutch East Indies and Dutch Ceylon), which rapidly increased the number of inhabitants. After...

Amangkurat III (Amangkurat Mas; died in Dutch Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), 1734) was a short-lived susuhunan (ruler) of the Sultanate of Mataram, who reigned...

glutinous rice wrapped in a banana leaf. The Dutch in Dutch Ceylon are likely to have adapted this dish from the Dutch East Indies in the early 16th century...

the idol of the main deity of the temple, and took it back to Galle, Dutch Ceylon. The local governor Vadamalaiyappan Pillai created new idols and took...

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networks in Asia, where they captured Malacca, Ceylon, the Malabar Coast, and the Moluccas. In Africa, the Dutch conquered the Portuguese Gold Coast. Portuguese...

Indies, Dutch Coromandel in 1806–1825, Dutch Suratte in 1616-1825 Dutch Bengal from 1827 to 1825, Dutch Ceylon from 1640 to 1796, and Dutch Malabar from...