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    The Colombo Dutch Museum is a museum that covers the history of the Dutch colonial rule in Sri Lanka. The two storey colonnaded building on Prince Street...
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    the Dutch period. These include the oldest building in the fort area, the former Dutch Hospital, the Dutch House which is now the Colombo Dutch Museum and...
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    The Colombo National Museum, also known as the Sri Lanka National Museum, is a museum in Colombo and the largest in Sri Lanka. Founded in 1877 and maintained...
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    Old Colombo Dutch Hospital (known as The Dutch Hospital) is considered to be the oldest building in the Colombo Fort area dating back to the Dutch colonial...
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    Colombo was also the capital of the Dutch Maritime Provinces controlled by the Dutch East India Company. The Port of Colombo fell to the British in 1796, when...
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    adjacent to the Colombo Port. The museum is operated and maintained by the Sri Lanka Ports Authority. The museum is housed in a former Dutch prison, built...
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    Fort (Colombo) (Sinhala: කොටුව; Tamil: கோட்டை) is the central business district of Colombo in Sri Lanka. It is the financial district of Colombo and the...
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    Dutch ramparts of the Galle fort National Museum of Galle, former Dutch Comissariat Old Dutch Hospital Colombo Dutch Museum National Maritime Museum or...
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    Galle Face Green (category Parks in Colombo)
    is that it is from the original Dutch name for the fortifications, in that the gateway which gave access to the Colombo Fort was called the Gal Gate, as...
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    at his ancestral home and spent his childhood there, before settling in Colombo in his adultlife working as a journlist. The house along with much of the...
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