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[[File:colombo.jpg|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] | [[File:colombo.jpg|center|350 px|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] | ||
===Official blazon=== | ===Official blazon=== | ||
===Origin/meaning=== | |||
The arms show a type of mango tree, as a canting symbol, the name was supposedly derived from Kol-amba, the name of the tree in Sinhalese. To the tree a small pigeon was added as a Christian canting symbol (from the Latin columba or pigeon). When the above arms were adopted is not known. The above image dates from a manuscript dating from 1717/1720. | The arms show a type of mango tree, as a canting symbol, the name was supposedly derived from Kol-amba, the name of the tree in Sinhalese. To the tree a small pigeon was added as a Christian canting symbol (from the Latin columba or pigeon). When the above arms were adopted is not known. The above image dates from a manuscript dating from 1717/1720. | ||
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{{media}} | {{media}} | ||
[[Literature]] : Silva, de and Beumer, Illustrations and views of Dutch Ceylon 1602-1796, 1988. | '''[[Literature]]''': Silva, de and Beumer, Illustrations and views of Dutch Ceylon 1602-1796, 1988. | ||
[[Category:Sri Lanka]] | [[Category:Sri Lanka]] | ||