The Vazimba (Malagasy [vaˈʒimbə̥]), according to popular belief, were the first inhabitants of Madagascar. While beliefs about the physical appearance...
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Malagasy mythology (section Vazimba veneration)
veneration of the Vazimba as the most ancient of ancestors. The kings of some Malagasy tribes claim a blood kinship to the Vazimba, including the Merina...
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Merina Kingdom (section Hova-Vazimba conflict)
inhabited between 200 BC–300 AD by the island's earliest settlers, the Vazimba, who appear to have arrived by pirogue from southeastern Borneo to establish...
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had extended its rule over virtually all of Madagascar. The son of a Vazimba mother and a man of the newly arrived Hova people originating in southeast...
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History of Madagascar (section Vazimba and Vezo)
is known to have been a Vazimba. Rafohy and Rangita, the two founding queens of the Merina royalty, were also called Vazimbas. On the other side, the...
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Paroedura vazimba is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Raxworthy, C.J.; Ratsoavina, F.; Rabibisoa, N.; Rakotondrazafy...
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people's culture likely mixed and merged with the Madagascar natives named Vazimba about whom little is known. According to the island's oral traditions,...
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they called the Vazimba. Probably the descendants of an earlier and less technologically advanced Austronesian settlement wave, the Vazimba were assimilated...
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circa 1610, when the Merina King Andrianjaka (1612–1630) expelled the Vazimba inhabitants of the village of Analamanga. Declaring it the site of his...
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Beosi (redirect from Vazimba language)
originated in southern Borneo. Speculation that there may be remnants of a Vazimba language in Beosi speech was investigated by Blench & Walsh (2009). Beosi...
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