Originally named Kolomtota, Colombo was the main seaport of Kotte, Sri Lanka's 15th- and 16th-century capital. Known to Arab traders as Kalamba, the city attracted the rapacious Portuguese as early as 1505 and became the bastion of their rule for almost 150 years.
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In 1796, Colombo came under British rule and Colombo continued to be the capital city of the island, which was then known as British Ceylon. We still see ...
The island was divided into numerous kingdoms over the following centuries, intermittently (between CE 993–1077) united under Chola rule. Sri Lanka was ruled by ...
Yet, Colombo has a deeply layered imperial past: it was initially an Indian ocean settlement which attracted Muslim settlers, before it came under a succession ...
Colombo, now the cosmopolitan and commercial hub of Sri Lanka, was once a simple trading port used by ancient merchants, before becoming a much sought after ...