Slave Island

English

Etymology

From the fact that the place was used to hold African slaves by Portuguese colonizers.

Proper noun

Slave Island

  1. A suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
    • 2022 July 18, “In Sri Lanka capital’s Slave Island, shadows of a crisis”, in Al Jazeera‎[1]:
      “It’s very difficult to live, even a loaf of bread is expensive,” said Pereira outside his modest home in Slave Island, a poor enclave of the capital Colombo. “If we take one meal, we skip another.”
    • 2023 February 3, Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama, “Slave Island changed to ’Kompannavidiya’”, in Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)‎[2]:
      Although, the name Slave Island was used during the colonial period, the name 'Kompannavidiya' was used in the languages of Sinhala and Tamil.
    Synonym: (official) Kompagngna Veediya
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