The History of Madagascar
The Malagasy have been in Madagascar for 1500 to 2000 years, although stone artefacts indicate an older culture possibly existing there. The Malagasy people are a mixture of Asians and Africans. Most of the immigrants were Malay-Polonesians, who crossed the Indian Ocean from Indonesia and South-East Asia. But people came from eastern Africa as well. There were 18 official ‘tribes’ or clans inhabiting the islands mixed population with African slaves, Arab, Indian and Portuguese traders, European pirates and French colonists. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive, in a fleet under Diego Dias’s command in 1500. The Portuguese. Dutch and British, in the centuries that followed, all failed to esta
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