When the Portuguese colonised the maritime areas of Sri Lanka, this language was formed in the contact among Portuguese, Sinhalese and Tamil people, and it was an important lingua franca, a language ...

A Sri Lankan man walks across a deserted street during a curfew in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, April 21, 2019. More than two hundred people were killed and hundreds more injured in eight blasts ...

Who are the Portuguese Burghers, exactly? Check out this New Bedford Whaling Museum's virtual lecture on Oct. 30 to find out.

Fading tune One musician’s struggle to save the distinctive culture of Sri Lanka’s Portuguese Burghers Earl Barthelot of the band Burgher Folks has dedicated himself to reviving the identity ...

Three Couples Go All In on a Portuguese Dream Home Plus: a forager’s haven in the Bavarian Alps, a lakefront retreat in southern Sri Lanka and more recommendations from T Magazine.

Suicide bombers struck Sri Lanka’s churches and hotels on Easter Sunday, killing and injuring hundreds of people. Seven percent of Sri Lanka’s population is Christian – most of them Roman ...

If Portuguese rule had continued, SL would have completely lost its Buddhist heritage, writes PK Balachandran. Sri Lanka is now seeing an effervescent anti-Portuguese movement, with articles being ...

Once the Portuguese landed in Sri Lanka in 1505 AD, their first task was to erect and maintain a stores for arms, with the permission of the King of Kotte. Their leader from 1505 – 1507 was only an ...

Sri Lanka's history is shrouded in a controversy that has largely defined today's violent ethnic conflict that pits the island's majority Sinhalese community against the minority Tamils.

A chronology of key events in the history of Sri Lanka from the fifth century BC to the present day.

Built in the fifth century, Sri Lanka’s Sigiriya fortress attracted the attention of British archaeologists in the 1800s, who were amazed by its leonine rock art and beautiful frescoes.

Ven. Upali Thero accepted the request and handed over the Buddha statue on 1st August 2023 in Sri Lanka. This statue, with deep historical significance, was donated last week to the Sumedharama Temple ...