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The Portuguese arrived in Sri Lanka in 1505, initially as merchants for the lucrative spice trade. Sri Lanka's Crisis of the Sixteenth Century (1521–1597) began with the Vijayabā Kollaya, the partitioning of the Kingdom of Kotte between three brothers, who began a series of wars over the succession. Starting in 1527, the Portuguese began to ...
Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about 31 km off the southern coast of India. After over two thousand years of rule by local kingdoms, parts of Sri Lanka were colonized by Portugal and the Netherlands beginning in the 16th century, before control of the entire country passed to Britain in 1815.
Reverend Walter Stanley Senior (10 May 1876 – 23 February 1938) was an English scholar, poet and member of the Church Missionary Society. [1] Popularly known as the "Bard of Lanka", [2] [3] [4] his works are still widely read in the island nation. He was also vice principal of Trinity College, Kandy, Sri Lanka.
In 1886 Archdeacon Walter Edmond Matthew introduced services in English and proposed that the name be changed to 'Church of the Good Shepherd' to avoid confusion with a similar named church in Kotahena. [1] The congregation however decided upon St Michael and All Angels, with the church dedicated on St. Michael’s Day, 29 September 1887. [3 ...
A History of Sri Lanka. India: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-04320-0. C. Gaston Pereira, Kandy fights the Portuguese. Sri Lanka: Vijitha Yapa Publications, July 2007. ISBN 978-955-1266-77-6; Channa Wicremasekera, Kandy at War. Sri Lanka: Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2004. ISBN 955-8095-52-4
Mahinda Rajapaksa, former Sri Lankan president and brother of current president, became the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. [ 85 ] Since 2010, Sri Lanka has witnessed a sharp rise in foreign debt [ 86 ] The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic -induced global recession accelerated the crisis and by 2021, the foreign debt rose to 101% of the nation's ...
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Walter Jayawardena (born 1910; died unknown), Solicitor General of Sri Lanka Walter Johnson (1887–1946), American baseball player Walter von Keudell (1884–1973), German forest expert and politician