Ceylon (disambiguation)

Ceylon was the English name applied to the South Asian island nation of Sri Lanka until it repudiated its status as a Dominion and became a republic in 1972. The name Ceylon derived from Portuguese Ceilao, which is of uncertain etymology.

Ceylon may also refer to:

Places

Sri Lanka

Portuguese Ceylon (Ceilão), a Portuguese colony between 1505 and 1658
Dutch Ceylon (Zeylan), a Dutch East India Company territory between 1640 and 1796
British Ceylon, a British territory from 1815 to 1948
Dominion of Ceylon, a dominion in the British Commonwealth between 1948 and 1972
Ceylon, the largest of the islands of Sri Lanka
Jung Ceylon, the same English name was given to Jang Si Lang (modern day Phuket)

United States

Ceylon, Georgia, a ghost town
Ceylon, Indiana, an unincorporated community
Ceylon, Minnesota, a city
Ceylon, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community

Ships

HMS Ceylon (1808), a 32-gun frigate in the Royal Navy
HMS Ceylon (30), an Crown Colony-class cruiser commissioned in 1943
- Ceylon-class cruiser, a sub-class of the Crown Colony class cruisers

Other uses

Ceylon (curry), a family of curry recipes
Ceylon (film), an Indian film
Ceylon (programming language), a programming language announced by Red Hat in 2011
45604 Ceylon, a British LMS Jubilee Class locomotive

People with the given name

Ceylon Manohar (c. 1944 – 2018), Tamil pop singer and actor

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