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One of the Indian Ocean Islands off the southeast coast of Africa. Its capital is Antananarivo. It was formerly called the Malagasy Republic. Discovered by the Portuguese in 1500, its history has been tied predominantly to the French, becoming a French protectorate in 1882, a French colony in 1896, and a territory within the French union in 1946. The Malagasy Republic was established in the French Community in 1958 but it achieved independence in 1960. Its name was changed to Madagascar in 1975. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p714)
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- Malagasy Republic
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Indexed with the subheadings epidemiology, ethnology.
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the largest of the Indian Ocean Islands; entry term MALAGASY REPUBLIC was its former name
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80; was MALAGASY REPUBLIC 1964-79
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- National Library of Medicine. Madagascar. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008270. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008270
- Madagascar. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar
- Madagascar. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1019