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    History of Madagascar

    The History of Madagascar started from the ancient supercontinent of Pangaea, containing amongst others the African continent and the Indian subcontinent, and by the island's late colonization by human settlers from the Sunda Islands and from East Africa. These two factors facilitated the evolution and survival of thousands of endemic plant and animal species, some of which have gone extinct or are currently threatened with extinction. Trade in the Indian Ocean at the time of first colonization of Madagascar was dominated by Indonesian ships, probably of Borobudur ship and K'un-lun po types. Over two thousand years, the island has received waves of settlers of diverse origins, primarily Austronesian and Bantu. Centuries of intermarriages between both groups created the Malagasy people, who are roughly an equal mixture of both groups. They speak the Malagasy, an Austronesian language with Bantu, French and Arabic influences. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    The History of Madagascar started from the ancient supercontinent of Pangaea, containing amongst others the African continent and the Indian subcontinent, and by the island's late colonization by human settlers from the Sunda Islands (Malay Archipelago) and from East Africa. [1] These two factors facilitated the evolution and survival of thousands of endemic plant and animal species, some of ...
  3. britannica.com

    history of Madagascar, a survey of the notable events and people in the history of Madagascar, an island country lying off the southeastern coast of Africa in the southwestern Indian Ocean, separated from the African coast by the Mozambique Channel.Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world. Although it is located some 250 miles (400 km) from the African continent, its population is ...
  4. britannica.com

    Jan 12, 2025Madagascar, island country lying off the southeastern coast of Africa. It is the fourth largest island in the world. Although located some 250 miles from the African continent, Madagascar's population is primarily related not to African peoples but rather those of Indonesia, more than 3,000 miles to the east.
  5. britannica.com

    Jan 12, 2025Early history. Archaeological investigations in the 20th century indicated that human settlers reached Madagascar about 700 ce.Although the huge island lies geographically close to Bantu-speaking Africa, its language, Malagasy, belongs to the distant Western Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.There are nonetheless a number of Bantu words in the language, as well as ...
  6. africanhistoryextra.com

    Aug 13, 2023Lying about 400km off the coast of east Africa, the island of Madagascar has a remarkable history of human settlement and state formation. A few centuries after the beginning of the common era, a syncretized Afro-Asian society emerged on Madagascar, populating the island with plants and animals from both east Africa and south-east Asia, and creating its first centralized states.
  7. historyworld.net

    history of madagascar An island not to miss: to the 18th century AD As a very large island in the Indian Ocean (1000 miles from north to south, and in land area more than twice the size of Great Britain), Madagascar is a natural landfall for seafarers sailing east from Africa or west from Indonesia.
  8. metmuseum.org

    Learn about the formation and development of two large-scale kingdoms in western and central Madagascar in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Explore the cultural traditions, political institutions, and trade relations of the Maroserana and Merina rulers and their subjects.
  9. world-guides.com

    French Colonisation in Madagascar Following a period in the 19th century in which successive monarchs attempted to limit and expel both British and French colonisers, the island witnessed a series of wars with France from 1883 and these soon changed Madagascar's history. First, the government ceded Antisiranana, today known as Diego Suarez.

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