Portuguese Burghers. Originally an entirely Protestant community, many Burghers today remain Christian but belong to a variety of denominations. The Dutch Burghers...

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

contracts to the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and had become full citizens (burghers). The introduction of Free Burghers to the Dutch Cape Colony is regarded...

Portuguese Burghers sometimes mixed with but are to be distinguished from other Burgher people, such as Dutch Burghers. The Portuguese Burghers are largely...

known commonly as the Dutch Burgher Union (DBU), is an organisation of Dutch Burghers in Sri Lanka. It was established on 18 January 1908 by Richard Gerald...

the coast of Sri Lanka was under Dutch rule. The Dutch Burghers (an ethnic group of mixed Dutch, Portuguese Burghers and Sri Lankan descent) came up with...

its importance in the social lives of 17th-century Dutch burghers. The physical space of the Dutch home was constructed along gender lines. In the front...

Governor. Dutch Ceylon was administered by a Governor appointed by the Governor General of the Dutch East Indies. Many of the Dutch Burghers migrated to...

was also attended by the children of the indigenes and the Free Burghers. The Dutch language was taught at schools as the main medium for commercial...

The Dutch diaspora consists of the Dutch and their descendants living outside the Netherlands. Emigration from the Netherlands has been occurring for since...