The Vazimba (Malagasy [vaˈʒimbə̥]), according to popular belief, were the first inhabitants of Madagascar. While beliefs about the physical appearance...

veneration of the Vazimba as the most ancient of ancestors. The kings of some Malagasy tribes claim a blood kinship to the Vazimba, including the Merina...

inhabited between 200 BC–300 AD by the island's earliest settlers, the Vazimba, who appear to have arrived by pirogue from southeastern Borneo to establish...

had extended its rule over virtually all of Madagascar. The son of a Vazimba mother and a man of the newly arrived Hova people originating in southeast...

Paroedura vazimba is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Raxworthy, C.J.; Ratsoavina, F.; Rabibisoa, N.; Rakotondrazafy...

people's culture likely mixed and merged with the Madagascar natives named Vazimba about whom little is known. According to the island's oral traditions,...

is known to have been a Vazimba. Rafohy and Rangita, the two founding queens of the Merina royalty, were also called Vazimbas. On the other side, the...

originated in southern Borneo. Speculation that there may be remnants of a Vazimba language in Beosi speech was investigated by Blench & Walsh (2009). Beosi...

they called the Vazimba. Probably the descendants of an earlier and less technologically advanced Austronesian settlement wave, the Vazimba were assimilated...

circa 1610, when the Merina King Andrianjaka (1612–1630) expelled the Vazimba inhabitants of the village of Analamanga. Declaring it the site of his...

Earthly name – to play with the Vazimba (the original inhabitants of Madagascar according to Malagasy mythology). The Vazimba were specifically warned not...

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Queen Rafohy (died 1540) was a Vazimba queen who ruled at Alasora in the central Highlands of Madagascar from 1530 until her death in 1540. Her name means...

the Menehune Taotao Mona, similar supernatural beings in the Marianas Vazimba, similar belief in Madagascar Thrum, Thos (1907). Hawaiian Folk Tales....

around 1610 until 1630, is believed to have captured Analamanga from a Vazimba king around 1610 or 1625 and erected the site's first fortified royal structure...

accomplishment of his reign was the capture of the hill of Analamanga from a Vazimba king. There he established the fortified compound (rova) that would form...

Queen Rangita (died 1530), also known as Rangitamanjakatrimovavy, was a Vazimba sovereign who ruled at Merimanjaka in the central highlands of Madagascar...

been founded by Prince Ramasimparihy in 1490. Ruling from Imerimanjaka, vazimba Queen Rangita (1500–1520) and her brother Andrianamponga gave the site...

interspersed among the existing Vazimba settlements, which were ruled by local kings. The tombs of at least four Vazimba are located on or around Ambohimanga...

possibly first settled by Austronesians from 350 BC-550 AD, termed the Vazimba in Malagasy oral traditions, although there is considerable academic debate...

(List of sultans of Ndzuwani) Agĩkũyũ (1512–1888/1895 AD) (Kikuyu people) Vazimba Kingdoms (pre–1547 AD) (uncertain regarding total) (Andriandravindravina)...

highlands. They are associated with the vazimba, the earliest inhabitants of Madagascar, and the many vazimba tombs throughout Bezanozano territory are...

were the first inhabitants of the island likely speaking the hypothetical Vazimba language. Around the Bay of Bengal, early forms of the Bengali language...

people via their dreams or via visions. It has also been suggested that the Vazimba are the ghosts of the kalanoro. Hobbs, Joseph J. (2001). "People and caves...

suited to rule. Although female rulers had once been common among the Vazimba, described in oral histories as the original inhabitants of Madagascar...

legendary first inhabitants of Madagascar, the Vazimba. However, Ramboasalamarazaka had partial Vazimba ancestry on his mother's side through her antecedent...

of reign End of reign Length Ref. Rangita – Queen Vazimba 1520 1530 10 years Rafohy – Queen Vazimba 1530 1540 10 years Bety – Queen Betsimisaraka 1750...

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around 1540 to protect his residence throughout a war with the neighboring Vazimba. Rovas are organized according to traditional symbolic notions of space...

Ainu folklore Ota Benga, man taken as slave and zoo exhibit to the U.S. Vazimba, possible first inhabitants of Madagascar Homo floresiensis, an extinct...