Slave Island en · PROPN
Etymology
From the fact that the place was used to hold African slaves by Portuguese colonizers.
Meanings
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A suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
“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.”
2022 July 18, “In Sri Lanka capital’s Slave Island, shadows of a crisis”, in Al Jazeera:Although, the name Slave Island was used during the colonial period, the name 'Kompannavidiya' was used in the languages of Sinhala and Tamil.
2023 February 3, Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama, “Slave Island changed to ’Kompannavidiya’”, in Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka):