Sri Lanka / Ceylon: Lascarins (indigenous soldiers) or Sinhalese soldiers. Pencil and watercolour on paper, Jan Brandes, 1785-1786 (Rijksmuseum)

Lascarins (Lascareen, Lascoreen and Lascarine) is a term used in Sri Lanka to identify indigenous soldiers who fought for the Portuguese during the Portuguese era (1505–1658) and continued to serve as colonial soldiers until the 1930s.

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