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Message: <blockquote data-quote="netlife007" data-source="post: 21307853" data-attributes="member: 79514"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue">Other interesting names that still survive from those days:</span></span><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: DarkGreen"><span style="color: Red">Main Street</span>: (Roa Direto).</span></span></strong></p><p> <strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: DarkGreen">The Dutch remembered one of their governors – Hulft who died during the siege of Colombo, with <span style="color: Red">Hulftsdorp</span> and recalled some of their native place names like <span style="color: Red">Leyden</span> and <span style="color: Red">Delft</span>.</span></span></strong></p><p> <strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: DarkGreen">The Dutch named<span style="color: Red"> Maliban Street</span> to identify the fashionable promenade in Pettah – Maliban meaning the MMall.</span></span></strong></p><p> <strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: DarkGreen"><span style="color: Red">Kayman's Gate</span> refers to 'kayman' – crocodiles that were found in the area where the rivulet entered the sea.</span></span></strong></p><p> <strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: DarkGreen"><span style="color: Red">Wolvendaal</span> meant the dale of wolves.</span></span></strong></p><p> <strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: DarkGreen"><span style="color: Red">Bloemendahl </span>is a vale of flowers.</span></span></strong></p><p> <strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span><span style="color: DarkGreen"><span style="color: Red">Korteboam </span>means short trees.</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: DarkGreen"> </span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: DarkGreen"><span style="color: Red">Beira </span>(mythology), the mother to all the gods and goddesses in the Celtic mythology of Scotland.</span></span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>

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