Wars involving Sri Lanka

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armed conflict in Sri Lanka (1983–2009) between the government and the separatist organization Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

war (1602–1663) between the Dutch and Portuguese colonial empires

attempted coup in Sri Lanka

Portuguese conquest of the Jaffna kingdom in Sri Lanka (1560-1621)

military conflict

armed revolt in Sri Lanka

1987 military intervention

1594 Portuguese military campaign against the Kingdom of Kandy

characterization of violence by the Sri Lankan government against Tamils from 1956–2009

third Kandyan War with the British, in what is now Uva, Sri Lanka, then a province of the Kingdom of Kandy, against the British colonial government under Governor Robert Brownrigg

a series of conflicts waged from 1527 to 1658 against the Portuguese Empire

British Army expeditionary campaigns

1630 battle in the Sinhalese–Portuguese War