#grande comore

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Grande Comore

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Lava del Monte Karthala in le plagia (Grande Comore) | David Stanley | Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

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Those trumpets though

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Comoros Moroni: mosque ruin by Juergen Kurlvink

Moroni, Grande Comore, Comoros

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Said Ali bin Said Omar, last Sultan of Bambao, and last Sultan Tibe, (paramount King) on the island of Grande Comore/Ngazidja.

In 1886, Ngazidja was comprised of 9 independent Sultanates, Bambao being just 1. Said Ali bin Said Omar usurped the other Sultanates, and signed a treaty with France, whereby France recognizes Bambao’s sovereignty over the whole of the island and Bambao becomes a protectorate of France.

In 1892, the Sultan was exiled to Reunion, and in 1908 the individual islands of the archipelago were lumped together into a single protectorate. In 1912, the islands were officially annexed by France and made a province of Madagascar.

The now lumped together islands of The Comoros (excluding Mayotte) would not regain independence until 1975.