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    island of Madagascar by France. It was the last phase of the Franco-Hova War and followed the First Madagascar expedition of 1883–1885. Madagascar was at...
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    The First Madagascar expedition was the beginning of the Franco-Hova War and consisted of a French military expedition against the Merina Kingdom on the...
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    Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island country that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands...
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    island of Madagascar, with the consent of the United Kingdom. The French position on the island was solidified by the First Madagascar expedition (May 1883...
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    de Boynes to fund an expedition of Benyovszky and a large group of 'Benyovszky Volunteers', to set up a French colony on Madagascar. This expedition arrived...
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    The Madagascar commemorative medal (French: Médaille commémorative de Madagascar) was a French commemorative medal issued to the participants to the First...
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    The History of Madagascar started from the ancient supercontinent of Pangaea, containing amongst others the African continent and the Indian subcontinent...
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    Ranavalo-Manjaka I or Ranavalona reniny, was the sovereign of the Kingdom of Madagascar from 1828 to 1861. After positioning herself as queen following the death...
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    Jacques Duchesne (category French military personnel of the Madagascar expeditions)
    Gann, Peter Duignan, p. 93 Garnot, Eugène Germain (1894). L' expédition française de Formose, 1884-1885. Paris: Librairie C. Delagrave. hdl:2027/uc1...
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  • Marosakabe cave system (category Madagascar geography stubs)
    Spéléologie sous les Tsingy de Namoroka, document no11 "Malagasy 2018". Association Drabons et Chieures; Ass. Antsika Ensemble. "Expédition Malagasy 2018" (in...
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    nest on the beaches around the island. Juan de Nova is located in the Mozambique Canal, closer to the Madagascar side: 140 kilometres (87 mi) from Tambohorano...
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    flora of Madagascar consists of more than 12,000 species of plants, as well as a poorly known number of fungi and algae. Around 83% of Madagascar's vascular...
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    Tromelin Island (category Uninhabited islands of Madagascar)
    270 nmi) north of Réunion and about 450 km (280 mi; 240 nmi) east of Madagascar. Tromelin is part of the Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean, the fifth...
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    during the Second Madagascar expedition. Below is a list of the line of Merina monarchs that ruled in the Central Highlands of Madagascar and from whom were...
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    Majungasaurus (category Dinosaurs of Madagascar)
     'Mahajanga lizard') is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in Madagascar from 70 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period,...
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    November 1861 – 23 May 1917) was the last sovereign of the Kingdom of Madagascar. She ruled from 30 July 1883 to 28 February 1897 in a reign marked by...
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    Cornelis de Houtman (2 April 1565 – 11 September 1599) was a Dutch merchant seaman who commanded the first Dutch expedition to the East Indies. Although...
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    Ranavalona II (1829 – 13 July 1883) was Queen of Madagascar from 1868 to 1883, succeeding Queen Rasoherina, her first cousin.[citation needed] She is best...
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    Islands (Îles Crozet), a group in the southern Indian Ocean, south of Madagascar. Kerguelen Islands (Archipel des Kerguelen), a group of volcanic islands...
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  • Takhtajania (category Endemic flora of Madagascar)
    species, Takhtajania perrieri. It is endemic to Madagascar. Takhtajania is found in a small area of the Madagascar subhumid forests. It is a small evergreen...
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    trade, but after the first Dutch expedition to Indonesia under Cornelis de Houtman, the backers of that expedition decided that the time was ripe for...
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    French Intervention to Korea (French: Expédition française en Corée, Korean: 병인양요) was an 1866 punitive expedition undertaken by the Second French Empire...
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    Mouvement démocratique de la rénovation malgache (MDRM) political party, led an effort to achieve independence for Madagascar through legal channels....
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    of the French Settlement He Was Appointed to Form upon the Island of Madagascar". World Digital Library. 1790. Archived from the original on 22 April...
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    Réunion (redirect from Ile de la Réunion)
    Islands, it is located approximately 679 km (422 mi) east of the island of Madagascar and 175 km (109 mi) southwest of the island of Mauritius. As of January...
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    Red fody (redirect from Madagascar Red Fody)
    also known as the Madagascar fody in Madagascar, red cardinal fody in Mauritius, or common fody, is a small bird native to Madagascar and introduced to...
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    commission from the French ministry of education, during 1857–1861. In Madagascar during 1863, he visited many parts of the island and also spent time in...
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    The Kingdom of Merina, also known as the Kingdom of Madagascar and officially the Kingdom of Imerina (Malagasy: Fanjakan'Imerina; c. 1540–1897), was a...
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    Gambia. One year later, another English colonial expedition attempted to settle southern Madagascar, resulting in the death of most of the colonists....
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    Anne Antoine, Comte d'Aché for transporting 200 slaves on Roland from Madagascar to sell in French colonies in defiance of Louis XV, who had issued regulations...
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