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Comoros Islands - Culture Overview The Comoro Islands comprises a small archipelago of islands located north of Madagascar off the coast of East Africa. These islands have long been important to the trading networks of the Indian Ocean, maintaining contact with the African mainland, Arabia, and Asia from the 10th century on. Though Islam provided cultural continuity to the Comoro Islanders, rival sultanates on each island obstructed political unity. Since the 19th century local leaders have often appealed to European, and especially French, outsiders to help with internal questions. This practice aided the French in assuming control of the islands during the late 19th century, but the role of outsiders has continued to be a matter of dissension since independence. For many Comoro Islanders, different cultural traditions contribute more to secession movements than to national unity. The Comoros were originally settled by Malaysian and Polynesian peoples. From the 10th to the 15th centuries, Africans, Arabs, and Shirazian peoples from the Persian Gulf arrived in great numbers, and it is from these peoples that the current population is descended. During this same period the influence of Islam spread through the islands, and Sunni Muslims make up the vast majority of Comorans, except for on the island of Mayotte (Mahore), which is a French dependency where Roman Catholicism has many followers. The population also includes important Indian, Malagasy, and European minorities. The official languages are French and Arabic, though most people in their daily life speak Comoran, a language very similar to Swahili with the addition of many loan words from around the Indian Ocean.

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Welcome to Kids Club Holidays Comores (The Comoros Islands) "The Perfume Islands" With two thirds of the world's perfume essence coming from these volcanic islands, its not surprising that the Comores are known as the perfume islands. Situated off the East African coast the islands are steeped in rich history and culture imported centuries ago by Arab, Portugese and French traders. Today visitors can re-discover the ancient mosques, volcanic lakes and white beaches, not to mention the colourful coral reefs and superb scuba diving. These islands are also known as the fantasy islands, Comoros islands have all the ingredients to generate fantasy: an incredible history with pirates, sultans, kings and queens, all this mixed with tropical weather, incredible white sandy beaches and extraordinary flora and fauna. Note: if travelling to Comoros we recommend that you check the Official web site for the UK Government Foreign Office for details on the country before departing. They can be found online at www.fco.gov.uk

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home search help worldguide ... Related Weblinks The Comoros islands are wrapped in a fragrant blend of ylang-ylang oil, Arabic aesthetics, African warmth and French chic. There are cobblestoned medinas with higgledy-piggledy lanes and old world charm; ports bristling with white sailed dhows; tropical moons rising over white beaches; the sun setting over the ocean in a riot of reds and oranges; and a colourful history of sultans and soothsayers, plantantion owners and eloping princesses. But despite all these charms Comoros and Mayotte remain the least frequented and least travelled of all the islands in the region. This may have something to do with the islands' reputation as a backwater, or it just might have something to do with the political coups, civilian riots and seccessionist plots that come and go with seasonal punctuality. Not for nothing has Comoros been nicknamed Coup-Coup Land. Full country names: Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros; Territorial Collectivity of Mayotte Area: Comoros covers an area of 2230 sq km (870 sq mi) and Mayotte 375 sq km (146 sq mi) Population: Comoros 150,000; Mayotte 88,000

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Comoros Islands PEOPLE Population: 578,400 (July 2000 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 43% (male 116,345; female 115,886) 15-64 years: 54% (male 146,655; female 150,612) 65 years and over: 3% (male 7,644; female 8,386) (July 1998 est.) Population growth rate: 3.1% (1998 est.) Birth rate: 40.52 births/1,000 population (1998 est.) Death rate: 9.52 deaths/1,000 population (1998 est.) Net migration rate: migrant(s)/1,000 population (1998 est.) Sex ratio: at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 0.97 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.91 male(s)/female (1998 est.) Infant mortality rate: 84.54 deaths/1,000 live births (1998 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 60.36 years male: 57.95 years female: 62.84 years (1998 est.) Total fertility rate: 5.48 children born/woman (1998 est.) Nationality: noun: Comoran(s) adjective: Comoran Ethnic groups: Antalote, Cafre, Makoa, Oimatsaha, Sakalava Religions: Sunni Muslim 86%, Roman Catholic 14% Languages: Arabic (official), French (official), Comoran (a blend of Swahili and Arabic) Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: male: female: 50.4% (1995 est.)

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18. IWon - Travel Guide - History & Culture that the earliest inhabitants of the islands were journeymen but traces of this originalAsian culture have blended royal clans, who appeared in comoros in the http://www.iwon.com/travel/travelguide/history/0,20310,Africa-376,00.html

iWon Travel Africa Powered by HISTORY and CULTURE History Culture History It is thought that the earliest inhabitants of the islands were journeymen from Indonesia-Polynesia, but traces of this original Asian culture have blended seamlessly into successive waves of African, Arab and Shirazi immigrants. The most notable of these early immigrants were the Shirazi Arab royal clans, who appeared in Comoros in the 15th and 16th centuries, and stayed to build mosques, set up royal house, and introduce architecture and carpentry. In 1529 the French Parmentier brothers popped in for a visit, but the first reliable European accounts of this part of the world came from the Portuguese explorers, Diego Dias and Ferdinand Soares. The Portuguese failed to capitalise on being the first to reach the islands, and for the next century or two the islands were used only as a pit stop during voyages up and down the coast of East Africa. In fact, up until the middle of the 19th century, it was not European explorers but pirates from Madagascar that caused the biggest headaches. During this time the number of sultans mushroomed at an alarming rate and at one stage there were no fewer than 12 sultans on the island of Grande Comore alone. This is one sultan per 100sq km (39 sq mi), or, put another way, three squabbling sultans per New York City, which, in anybody's language, is two sultans too many. From the 15th century to the middle of the 19th, the power brokers happily played musical sultanates between themselves until the French turned their attention to the Comoros islands in the middle of the 19th century. The French finally acquired the islands through a cunning mixture of strategies, including the divide and conquer ploy, chequebook politics, and a serendipitous affair between a sultana and a French trader that was turned to good use. Comoros history from this era reads like a cross between a Walt Disney animated film, a Merchant Ivory production, and a Shakespearean tragedy. Through all the ups and downs, the French kept an iron grip on the islands, quelling peasant unrest and the occasional uprising.

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iWon Travel Africa : Getting There, Getting Around Powered by GETTING THERE GETTING AROUND Getting There Getting Around Getting There Flights direct from Europe, non-European cities and other islands in the area, although few and far between, land at either Moroni, on Grande Comore island, or Mayotte. Strictly speaking, Mayotte is not a part of the Comoros islands and it should be noted that although Mayotte is geographically close to the other Comoros islands, its political and social distance makes it difficult to use as a jumping off point to the other islands. You can sometimes get a berth on ships sailing from mainland Africa to Madagascar, and they'll drop you off at either Grande Comore or Anjouan on the way. This method requires diligence and patience, as there are no ready-made systems to handle foreigners from the mainland traveling to Comoros by sea. Getting Around The airport at Moroni, Hahaya, is 19km (12mi) north of the city center. After paying for your on-the-spot visa you can get to the city center by taxi, although a lack of money-changing facilities at the airport means the fares rocket into the upper stratosphere. Planes flying into Mayotte land at Petite Terre (Pamandzi), and getting to the mainland of Grand Terre requires catching a share taxi to the ferry terminal at Dzaoudzi, and then catching another taxi, or walking, to your hotel, at the other end. There are no money changing facilities at Pamandzi airport either, so fly in with French francs already in your pocket.

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