Ceylon (disambiguation)

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Ceylon was a name applied to the South Asian island nation Sri Lanka during colonial rule. See Names of Sri Lanka.

Ceylon may also refer to:

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
• the Dominion of Ceylon, a dominion in the British Commonwealth between 1948 and 1972
• by far the largest of the islands of Sri Lanka

United States

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

Given name

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

Naval ships

• HMS Ceylon (1808), 32-gun frigate in the Royal Navy
• HMS Ceylon (30), an 8000-ton displacement Crown Colony-class cruiser commissioned in 1943, which fought in the East Indies in World War II
• Ceylon class cruiser, a sub-class of the Crown Colony class cruisers

Food and drink

• Tea production in Sri Lanka discusses three kinds of tea referred to as Ceylon tea (black, green, and white)
• Ceylon (curry), a family of curry recipes with coconut, lemon, and a specific Ceylon curry powder

Other

• Ceylon (film), an Indian film
• Ceylon (programming language), a programming language and SDK, announced by Red Hat in 2011
• 45604 Ceylon, a British LMS Jubilee Class locomotive

See also

• Air Ceylon, the Sri Lankan national airline until 1978, then replaced by Air Lanka
• Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in south Asia, then replaced by Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation in 1967
• Ceylon ironwood or Mesua ferrea, a plant native to Sri Lanka