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List of Burgher people information


This is a list of notable Burgher people, who are a Eurasian ethnic group, historically from Sri Lanka, consisting for the most part of male-line descendants of European colonists from the 16th to 20th centuries (mostly Portuguese, Dutch, German and British) and local women, with some minorities of French and Irish.

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Burgher people

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Burgher people, also known simply as Burghers, are a small Eurasian ethnic group in Sri Lanka descended from Portuguese, Dutch, British and other Europeans...

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List of Burgher people

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This is a list of notable Burgher people, who are a Eurasian ethnic group, historically from Sri Lanka, consisting for the most part of male-line descendants...

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The Burghers of Calais

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The Burghers of Calais (French: Les Bourgeois de Calais) is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin in twelve original castings and numerous copies. It commemorates...

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Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon

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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 (DBU)...

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Dutch Burghers

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The Dutch Burghers are an ethnic group in Sri Lanka, of mixed Dutch, Portuguese Burgher and Sri Lankan descent. However, they are a different community...

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Burgher arms

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Burgher arms or bourgeois arms are coats of arms borne by persons of the burgher social class of Europe since the Middle Ages (usually called bourgeois...

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List of contemporary ethnic groups

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List of Indigenous peoples List of diasporas List of stateless nations regional lists: Ethnic groups in Asia Ethnic groups in Northern Asia List of ethnic...

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Sinhalese people

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Sinhalese people speak Sinhala, an insular Indo-Aryan language. Sinhalese people are predominantly Theravada Buddhists, although a significant minority of Sinhalese...

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Ethnic groups in South Asia

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Bangladeshi-Armenians Burgher people French-Indian Luso-Indian Bangladeshi Chinese Indian Chinese Pakistani Chinese Sri Lankan Chinese Hunza people Kusunda Nahali...

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Portuguese people

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Indian Subcontinent In Sri Lanka (see Burgher people, Portuguese Burghers and Mestiços), home to around 40,000 Burghers. A notable Portuguese Burger was the...

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List of Generation Z slang

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This is a list of slang that is or was previously popularized by Generation Z (Gen Z), generally those born between the late 1990s and early 2010s in...

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Boers

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BOORZ; Afrikaans: Boere ([ˈbuːrə]) are the descendants of the proto Afrikaans-speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during...

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Itsekiri people

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Houses of Olgbotsere (Prime Minister or king maker) and Iyatsere (defence minister). The middle class or Omajaja were free-born Itsekiris or burghers. As...

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Griqua people

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how to acquire burgher rights and a ranch close to the present Piketberg, established the most incredible blended local area. Because of a common ancestor...

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List of Sri Lankan Australians

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Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamils and Burghers. Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer – academic Sisira Jayasuriya – professor of economics at La Trobe University Michael...

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Southern Ndebele people

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taunted the burghers from the safety of their breastworks. General Joubert's dynamiting operations were also unsuccessful, since the warriors of the Ndzundza...

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List of creole languages

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than 20 speakers remaining Ceylon Portuguese Creole, spoken by Portuguese Burghers and Sri Lankan Kaffirs in Sri Lanka Cochin Portuguese Creole, formerly...

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Multiracial people

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multiracial people or mixed-race people refer to people who are of more than one race, and the terms multi-ethnic people or ethnically mixed people refer to...

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Verona

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marquisate dependent on the Duchy of Bavaria, however, the increasing wealth of the burgher families eclipsed the power of the counts, and in 1135 Verona...

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List of people with surname Jones

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This list provides links to biographies of people who share this common surname. Alfred D. Jones (architect) (1872–1915), American designer of buildings...

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White Africans of European ancestry

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raising taxes, the British administration abolished the burgher senate, the only Dutch-era form of government at the Cape. It also took measures to bring...

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Bantu peoples of South Africa

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fall of Stockenström's treaty system. The seventh war became a war between the imperial British troops collaborating with the mixed-race "Burgher forces"...

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Balthazar

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Balthasar (1905–1988), Swiss theologian and priest J. G. Balthazar, Sri Lankan Burgher army brigadier Marco Balthazar (born 1983), Brazilian footballer Nic Balthazar...

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List of people named Peter

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various people Peter Alldridge, British lawyer Peter Daniel Anthonisz (1822–1903), Sri Lankan Burgher doctor, 1st President of the Ceylon Branch of the British...

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Afrikaners

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Republic of 1795–1806, burgher ('citizen') was popularised[by whom?] among Dutch communities both at home and abroad as a popular revolutionary form of address...

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