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Galle

• A tour of the historic city: brief details of buildings & fortifications
• Closenberg: a history of the house-turned-hotel, on De Fonseka family website; hotel site.

Sri Lanka

• China's ceramic trade with ancient Rajarata, by Prof. W.I. Siriweera
• Coins from Sri Lanka, including Surat silver rupees from the Great Basses
• Dutch canals in Sri Lanka
• Dutch & Portuguese remains in Sri Lanka (forts etc), by Marco Ramerini
• Godavaya: a port of the kingdom of Ruhuna, C2nd-6th
• Jambukola & Mahatittha: important northern ports, C3rd-13th
• The Mahavamsa or Great Chronicle, the first part written in C6th
• Maps of Portuguese & Dutch influence in Sri Lanka, 1560-1766, by Marco Ramerini
• Moors in Sri Lanka: From where did the Moors come, by Asiff Hussein
• Muslims and Sri Lanka, by Kamalika Pieris
• P&O/post: Early postal history of Ceylon & the P&O steam navigation company, by Dr. Srilal Fernando
• Ports in ancient Sri Lanka, by Prof. W.I. Siriweera
• Ports: Search for Sri Lanka's ancient ports and harbours, by A. Denis N. Fernando
• Portuguese in Ceylon, with map of Portuguese forts, by Marco Ramerini
• The prehistory of Sri Lanka, by Dr. S.U. Deraniyagala: book summary
• Short history of Ceylon, by H.W. Codrington, 1926: the whole book
• WWW Virtual Library Index for Sri Lanka (a terrific resource)

Portuguese ships & shipping

• Portuguese (& Dutch & other pre-British) colonial history, by Marco Ramerini - site index
• Gombroon, Hormuz etc, with maps: Portuguese in the Arabian peninsula & Persian Gulf, by Marco Ramerini

VOC ships & shipping

• The Duyfken replica
• Map of the VOC's main Asian settlements in the 1660s, by Marco Ramerini

Maritime archaeology sites & participating museums

• Amsterdam Historical Museum
• Central Cultural Fund of Sri Lanka
• Maritime Asia (SE Asia)
• Maritime History Virtual Archives
• Nordic Underwater Archaeology - worldwide coverage - perhaps the best single gateway for maritime archaeology
• Western Australian Maritime Museum

Miscellaneous

• Betel (leaves chewed with areca nuts, key Avondster cargo) - site in French (+ English in future?)
• Velsen, a city in the Netherlands twinned with Galle
• Zheng He's sexcentenary, by Bruce Doar: the voyages, scholarly status, & a bibliography of Chinese & foreign sources

Vanished links:

• China: Ancient Sri Lankan trade and cultural links with China, by S.S.M. Nanayakkara
• Muslims in Sri Lanka: A critical review of the article by Dr. S.K. Vidikale, by Dr. M.A.M. Shukri

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