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English[en]
From the 1590s, it was the sole independent native polity on the island of Sri Lanka and through a combination of hit-and-run tactics and diplomacy kept European colonial forces at bay, before finally succumbing to British colonial rule in 1818.
Slovenian[sl]
Od petdesetih let prejšnjega stoletja so bili na otoku Šrilanka edina domorodna država in s kombinacijo taktike in diplomacije, ki so jo zagnali in evropskih kolonialnih sil v zalivu, preden so končno podlegli britanski kolonialni vladi leta 1818.