Grande Comore (French pronunciation: [ɡʁand kɔmɔʁ]; Swahili: Ngazidja) is an island in Comoros off the coast of Africa. It is the largest island in the...
5 KB (460 words) - 22:37, 8 October 2024
Comoro Islands (redirect from Iles Comores)
covering a total area of 2034 km2, are as follows: Ngazidja (also known as Grande Comore): the largest island of the Union of the Comoros, with its capital Moroni...
23 KB (2,914 words) - 03:33, 12 October 2024
Geography of the Comoros (section Grande Comore)
They are Grande Comore (Njazidja), Mohéli (Mwali), Anjouan (Nzwani), and Mayotte (Mahoré). The islands' distance from each other—Grande Comore is some...
12 KB (1,408 words) - 14:40, 15 September 2024
The flag of Grande Comore was adopted in 2002. It is a navy blue field with a white crescent moon and four white stars in the hoist side. Throughout history...
2 KB (129 words) - 11:03, 12 March 2024
The President of Grande Comore, is the head of the autonomous government of Grande Comore (Ngazidja), the largest island of the Comoros. The position was...
3 KB (280 words) - 23:20, 23 September 2024
between Madagascar and East Africa. These include four main islands: Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli, of the Union of the Comoros, and Mayotte, a department...
13 KB (1,566 words) - 23:57, 6 September 2024
The Grande Comore bulbul (Hypsipetes parvirostris) is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found on the Comoro Islands. Its...
2 KB (105 words) - 19:32, 23 July 2023
List of cities in the Comoros (section Grande Comore)
This is a list of the populated places in Comoros, according to the region they are located in. Adda-Douéni Akibani Antsahé Assimpao Bada Kouni Bada la...
4 KB (285 words) - 08:16, 20 August 2024
the Comoros day gecko, is a species of gecko endemic to the island of Grande Comore, Comoros. It typically dwells on trees, and feeds on insects and nectar...
3 KB (346 words) - 18:40, 12 October 2024
asylum in Australia. The plane crash-landed in the Indian Ocean near Grande Comore, Comoros Islands, due to fuel exhaustion; 125 of the 175 passengers...
34 KB (2,685 words) - 17:34, 13 October 2024
is the southernmost and larger of the two shield volcanoes forming Grande Comore island, the largest island in the nation of Comoros. The Karthala volcano...
7 KB (546 words) - 20:37, 11 September 2024
constitution. The new Union of the Comoros consists of three islands, Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli. Each island has a president, who shares the presidency...
23 KB (2,862 words) - 04:03, 16 July 2024
French department claimed by the Comoros), red for Anjouan and blue for Grande Comore. The four stars on the flag also symbolize the four islands. The star...
10 KB (908 words) - 12:18, 29 September 2024
Miniopterus found on Grande Comore and Anjouan in the Comoros and in northern and western Madagascar. First described in 1959 from Grande Comore as a subspecies...
16 KB (1,972 words) - 21:54, 13 August 2023
Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked and crashed into the Indian Ocean near Grande Comore. Amin was born on 29 August 1943 in Eastleigh, Nairobi. He developed...
8 KB (723 words) - 06:26, 4 October 2024
Tervuren, Belgium. The type locality is off the coast of Iconi (Ikoni), Grande Comore, Comoros, at a depth of 37 m (121 ft). The four paratype specimens (CNDRS...
21 KB (2,422 words) - 19:57, 16 October 2024
5% were either born in Grande Comore or Mohéli (in the Union of the Comoros) or born in Mayotte of mothers born in Grande Comore or Mohéli, 7.9% were either...
69 KB (7,074 words) - 21:35, 10 October 2024
The Grand Comore drongo (Dicrurus fuscipennis) is a species of bird in the family Dicruridae. It is endemic to Comoros. The bird is glossy black with some...
1 KB (114 words) - 20:46, 28 December 2023
at the Wayback Machine." Comores Aviation International. Retrieved 3 February 2011. "Route Corniche - Moroni - Grande Comore." Flight International 3...
3 KB (226 words) - 22:06, 15 September 2020
Comoros (French: Territoire des Comores) was a French overseas territory consisting of the four main Comoro Islands (Grande Comore, Mohéli, Anjouan and Mayotte)...
13 KB (1,316 words) - 07:32, 19 August 2024
Comoros rotated between the country's three main islands: Anjouan, Grande Comore and Mohéli. The 2010 elections were limited to Mohélian candidates and...
19 KB (1,535 words) - 07:41, 14 September 2024
fanis and other chiefs shared power of the island; Ngazidja (today Grand Comore) was at many times divided into 11 sultanates. This article addresses the...
13 KB (906 words) - 09:04, 11 August 2024
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed (category People from Grande Comore)
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed (Arabic: فاضل عبدالله محمد) (1972 or 1974 – 8 June 2011, also known as Fadil Harun) was a Comorian-Kenyan member of al-Qaeda, and...
19 KB (1,979 words) - 18:28, 29 August 2024
airport of East Timor Comoros, an island country in the Indian Ocean Grande Comore, the principal island of this country Komoro (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
569 bytes (103 words) - 18:21, 21 December 2020
specimens that have been caught have been captured around the islands of Grande Comore and Anjouan in the Comoros Archipelago (Indian Ocean). Though there...
73 KB (6,345 words) - 03:13, 16 October 2024
one-term rotational system in place to share the presidency between Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli. Article 58 of the Comorian Constitution states...
19 KB (307 words) - 03:51, 17 October 2024
Airbus A310, which crashed into the Indian Ocean near the north coast of Grande Comore, Comoros on 30 June 2009, killing the other 152 people on board. 12-year-old...
24 KB (2,544 words) - 19:10, 9 October 2024
The Comorians (Arabic: القمري) inhabiting Grande Comore, Anjouan, and Mohéli (86% of the population) share African-Arab origins. Islam is the dominant...
18 KB (1,541 words) - 18:24, 18 September 2024
Saïd Ibrahim Ben Ali (redirect from Said Ibrahim of Grand Comore)
He was the son of Sultan Said Ali Bin Sultan Said Omar, Sultan of Grande Comore. Ibrahim was born in Antananarivo in Madagascar in 1911. His family...
5 KB (642 words) - 01:35, 18 September 2024