colonial Ceylon

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/colonial_Ceylon

GPTKB entity

Statements (56)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_period
gptkbp:capital	gptkb:Colombo
gptkbp:currency	gptkb:Ceylon_rupee
gptkbp:endDate	1948
gptkbp:followedBy	gptkb:Dominion_of_Ceylon
gptkbp:governor	gptkb:Frederick_North gptkb:Andrew_Caldecott gptkb:Henry_Monck-Mason_Moore
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	colonial Ceylon
gptkbp:locatedIn	gptkb:Sri_Lanka
gptkbp:mainExports	gptkb:café rubber coconut
gptkbp:notablePerson	gptkb:Sir_Ponnambalam_Arunachalam gptkb:Ponnambalam_Arunachalam gptkb:Sir_Arthur_de_Silva gptkb:Sir_Charles_Henry_de_Soysa gptkb:Sir_Chittampalam_Gardiner gptkb:Sir_Don_Baron_Jayatilaka gptkb:Sir_Ernest_de_Silva gptkb:Sir_Francis_Molamure gptkb:Sir_Gerard_Wijeyekoon gptkb:Sir_Henry_de_Mel gptkb:Sir_Marcus_Fernando gptkb:Sir_Mohamed_Macan_Markar gptkb:Sir_Oliver_Goonetilleke gptkb:Sir_Razik_Fareed gptkb:Sir_Richard_Aluwihare gptkb:Sir_Wilfred_de_Soysa gptkb:Sir_John_Kotelawala gptkb:Solomon_Bandaranaike gptkb:Anagarika_Dharmapala gptkb:Sirimavo_Bandaranaike gptkb:Ponnambalam_Ramanathan gptkb:Don_Stephen_Senanayake gptkb:Sir_Solomon_Dias_Bandaranaike gptkb:G._G._Ponnambalam gptkb:Sir_James_Peiris gptkb:Sir_Ponnambalam_Ramanathan
gptkbp:officialLanguage	gptkb:Tamil gptkb:Sinhala English
gptkbp:population	~6 million (1946 census)
gptkbp:precededBy	gptkb:Kingdom_of_Kandy
gptkbp:religion	gptkb:Buddhism gptkb:Christianity gptkb:Hinduism gptkb:Islam
gptkbp:ruled	gptkb:British_Empire gptkb:Dutch_Empire Portuguese Empire
gptkbp:significantEvent	gptkb:Independence_of_Ceylon gptkb:Kandyan_Convention
gptkbp:startDate	1505
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Running_in_the_Family
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6