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    Mayotte

    French overseas region and department located in the Indian Ocean
    mayotte.pref.gouv.fr

    Mayotte, officially the Department of Mayotte, is an overseas department and region and single territorial collectivity of France. It is one of the overseas departments of France as well as one of the 18 regions of France, with the same status as the departments of Metropolitan France. It is an outermost region of the European Union and, as an overseas department of France, part of the eurozone. Mayotte is located in the northern part of the Mozambique Channel in the western Indian Ocean off the coast of Southeastern Africa, between the northwestern part of the island of Madagascar and northeastern Mozambique on the continent. Mayotte consists of a main island, Grande-Terre, a smaller island, Petite-Terre, as well as several islets around these two. Mayotte's land area is 374 square kilometres and, with its 320,901 people according to January 2024 official estimates, is very densely populated at 858 inhabitants per km². Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    Topographic map of Mayotte, the "seahorse island" The term Mayotte (or Maore) may refer to all of the department's islands, of which the largest is known as Maore (French: Grande-Terre) and includes Maore's surrounding islands, most notably Pamanzi (French: Petite-Terre), or only to the largest island.The name is believed to come from Mawuti, contraction of the Arabic جزيرة الموت ...
    • Dzaoudzi Pamandzi International Airport

      Dzaoudzi-Pamandzi International Airport (IATA: DZA, ICAO: FMCZ) is an airport located in Pamandzi, Mayotte, France on the southern tip of the island of Petite-Terre (or Pamanzi), east of Grande-Terre, the main island of Mayotte.It is the only airport in Mayotte with scheduled services, mainly to destinations within Africa and to metropolitan France.

    • Grande-Terre

      Grande-Terre (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃d tɛʁ]; Maore or Nyambo Bole in Shimaore) is the main island of the French overseas region of Mayotte. [2] The island is located in the northern Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean, namely between northwestern Madagascar and northeastern Mozambique .

    • Foreign Legion Detachment in Mayotte

      The Foreign Legion Detachment in Mayotte (French: Détachement de Légion étrangère de Mayotte, DLEM) is a detachment of the Foreign Legion based on the island of Mayotte, near Madagascar.It is the smallest operational unit of the French Army. [1] The main role of the detachment is to maintain a French presence in the region, enabling the French armed forces to quickly react to events in the ...

    • Maore Dialect

      Maore Comorian, or Shimaore (French Mahorais), is one of the two indigenous languages spoken in the French-ruled Comorian islands of Mayotte; Shimaore being a dialect of the Comorian language, while ShiBushi is an unrelated Malayo-Polynesian language originally from Madagascar.Historically, Shimaore- and ShiBushi-speaking villages on Mayotte have been clearly identified, but Shimaore tends to ...

    • Category:History

      History of Mayotte — the French island territory off the coast of southeast Africa. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.

  3. britannica.com

    Jan 17, 2025Mayotte is an overseas department of France comprising the two southeasternmost islands of the Comoros archipelago in the Mozambique Channel of the Indian Ocean. While the Comoros gained independence in 1975, Mayotte opted to remain part of France and voted to become a department in 2009. ... History. In the 15th century Arabs invaded the ...
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  4. purehistory.org

    History of the Comoros for the history of Mayotte before 1974. In 1500, the Maore or Mawuti (contraction of the Arabic جزيرة الموت Jazīrat al-Mawt -meaning island of the dead / of death and corrupted to Mayotte in French) sultanate was established on the island. In 1503, Mayotte was observed by Portuguese explorers, but not colonized.
  5. familysearch.org

    Mar 18, 2024Mayotte is an overseas department and region of France officially named the Department of Mayotte. It consists of a main island, Grande-Terre , a smaller island, Petite-Terre , and several islets around these two. The archipelago is located in the northern Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Southeast Africa, between northwestern Madagascar and northeastern Mozambique.
  6. everyculture.com

    History and Ethnic Relations Emergence of the Nation. Inhabited in the eighth century and organized into chieftainships and then a sultanate that often was threatened by Nzwani, Mayotte became a French possession in 1841, after a period of Malagasy raids and the violent seizure of power by a succession of usurpers.
  7. encyclopedia.com

    Until 1975, Mayotte, also known as Mahor é, was one of the islands of Comoros, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean between eastern Africa and the island of Madagascar.When Comoros gained its independence from France in the mid-1970s, Mayotte voted to remain a French territory. The island's educational system is based on that of France, and the primary language of instruction is French.
  8. Mayotte became an overseas department of France in 2011 as a consequence of a 2009 referendum. Under this change, Mayotte's traditional Islamic law will be gradually abolished and replaced by the uniform French civil code (Hallaj 2001). ... Réunion's history' prior to the arrival of the Portuguese in the early sixteenth century is ...
  9. globalsecurity.org-www.globalsecurity.org

    Mayotte - History. The Island of Mayotte is located at the entry to the Mozambique Channel and has for centuries been a crossroads for maritime trade between Europe and the Indian Ocean. At the origins of the Mayotte settlement, several civilizations are at the origin of the population of Mayotte. The first settlement of Bantu origin took place ...
  10. Mar 16, 2024History of Mayotte: Mayotte is an island located in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Africa. It was first sighted by the Portuguese but was not invaded. In the early 1800s, the island was conquered and repeatedly handed over to local kings and kings. In 1843, France took control of the archipelago along with the rest of the Comoros Islands.
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