Srilanka Brief History
In 1948 Britton as a colonial power gave back then Ceylon its freedom and on 4th of February 1948 they got it.
Like Norway, Sri Lanka or then Ceylon had been under 500 years of colonial power.
First the Portuguese from 1505, later the Dutch and from 1796 and until 1948 Britton controlled the Island. Something that Sri Lankans are very proud of is, only Britton managed to finally to take the last kingdom of Sri Lanka, then the Kandyan Kingdom which lay in the hill country. Kandy was the last Sri Lankan kingdom that fell to the European powers. Neither the Portuguese nor the Dutch managed to take Kandy, but the British did.
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