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JAFFNA , a See also:town of See also:Ceylon, at the See also:northern extremity of the See also:island. The fort was described by See also:Sir J. See also:Emerson See also:Tennent as " the most perfect little military See also:work in Ceylon—a pentagon built of blocks of See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:coral." The See also:European See also:part of the town bears the Dutch See also:stamp more distinctly than any other town in the island; and there still exists a Dutch Presbyterian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church. Several of the church buildings date from the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the Portuguese. In 1901 Jaffna had a See also:population of 33,879, while in the See also:district or See also:peninsula of the same name there were 300,851 persons, nearly all See also:Tamils, the only Europeans being the See also:civil servants and a few planters. Coco-See also:nut planting has not been successful of See also:recent years. The natives grow palmyras freely, and have a See also:trade in the fibre of this See also:palm. They also grow and export See also:tobacco, but not enough See also:rice for their own requirements. A steamer calls weekly, and there is considerable trade. The railway See also:extension from See also:Kurunegala due See also:north to Jaffna and the See also:coast was commenced in 1900. Jaffna is the seat of a See also:government See also:agent and district See also:judge, and criminal sessions of the supreme See also:court are regularly held. Jaffna, or, as the natives See also:call it, Yalpannan, was occupied by the Tamils about 204 B.C., and there continued to be Tamil rajahs of Jaffna till 1617, when the Portuguese took See also:possession of the See also:place. As See also:early as 1544 the missionaries under See also:Francis See also:Xavier had made converts in this part of Ceylon, and after the See also:conquest the Portuguese maintained their proselytizing zeal. They had a Jesuit See also:college, a Franciscan and a Dominican monastery. The Dutch drove out the Portuguese in 1658. The Church of See also:England Missionary Societysbegan its work in Jaffna in 1818, and the See also:American Missionary Society in 1822.
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