Negombo

Negombo is a major city in Sri Lanka, situated on the west coast and at the mouth of the Negombo Lagoon, in Western Province. Negombo is one of the foremost business hubs inside the country and the administrative centre of Negombo Division. Negombo has approximately 142,136 population inside its divisional secretariat department. Negombo is known for its long sandy seashores and centuries old fishing enterprise. Negombo has a big bilingual populace of Roman Catholics, called Negombo Tamils who've their own Tamil dialect but in most cases become aware of themselves as Sinhalese.

The shallow waters of the Negombo Lagoon furnished secure safe haven for seafaring vessels and have become one of the key ports along with Kalpitiya, Puttalam, Colombo, Kalutara and Galle, from which the Sri Lankan kingdoms carried out outside exchange. The Portuguese restructured the traditional manufacturing and control of cinnamon and maintained their manage over the trade for greater than a century.

The decline in their strength began within the 1630s when warfare among the Portuguese and the Kingdom of Kandy reached a stalemate. The King of Kandy grew to become to the Dutch for assist. The Dutch captured Negombo from the Portuguese in 1646 and negotiated an armistice with Portugal for ten years. During this era the King of Kandy sought to provoke battle among the countries with the aid of passing through the territories of the only to assault the other.