I like to move it, move it... France held this Indian Ocean island nation as a colony until 1960
The island-town was the capital of the Portuguese colony until 
1898, when it was ... From the late first millennium AD, vast Indian Ocean trade 
networks... [DOC] [TLE] HISTORY OF MADAGASCAR - History World [PAR] As a very large island in the Indian Ocean (1000 miles from north to south, and in 
... new route to India, but it is not until a century later that much outside attention is 
paid to .... After the war Madagascar, like all other French colonies, becomes an 
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