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INSULA CEILON olim TAPROBANA Incolis TENARISIN et LANKAWN
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INSULA CEILON olim TAPROBANA Incolis TENARISIN et LANKAWN

Between 1655 and 1658 the island of Ceylon was captured by the Dutch from the Portugese. This conquest was important because it provided the Dutch East India Company (VOC) with a monopoly in the trade in cinnamom.

Date
1681
Mapmaker / publisher
Author: exactissime delineata et nuperrime edita per Nicolaam Visscher Amst: Bat: Cum Privil: Ordin: Hollandiae et West-frisiae Publisher: | author = Author: exactissime delineata et nuperrime edita p
Place
Ceylon by Nicolaes Visscher
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
atlas page
Original size
5,500 × 4,637 pixels

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