Geographicals

Seychelles

A group of Indian Ocean Islands, east of Tanzania. Their capital is Victoria. They were first claimed by the French in 1744 but taken by the English in 1794 and made a dependency of MAURITIUS in 1810. They became a crown colony in 1903 and a republic within the Commonwealth in 1976. They were named for the French finance minister, Jean Moreau de Sechelles, but respelled by the English in 1794. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1102 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p496)

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A group of Indian Ocean Islands, east of Tanzania. Their capital is Victoria. They were first claimed by the French in 1744 but taken by the English in 1794 and made a dependency of MAURITIUS in 1810. They became a crown colony in 1903 and a republic within the Commonwealth in 1976. They were named for the French finance minister, Jean Moreau de Sechelles, but respelled by the English in 1794. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1102 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p496)

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Indexed with the subheadings epidemiology, ethnology.

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a group of Indian Ocean Islands east of Tanzania

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  1. Z01w.058w.290w.120w.705w
  2. Z01w.639w.520.750w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Seychelles. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012750. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012750
  2. Seychelles. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seychelles
  3. Seychelles. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1042