- The
Vazimba (Malagasy [vaˈʒimbə̥]),
according to po****r belief, were the
first inhabitants of Madagascar.
While beliefs about the
physical appearance...
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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...
-
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...
- 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...
- 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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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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Paroedura vazimba is a
species of
lizard in the
family Gekkonidae. It is
endemic to Madagascar. Raxworthy, C.J.; Ratsoavina, F.; Rabibisoa, N.; Rakotondrazafy...
- 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...
- they
called the
Vazimba.
Probably the
descendants of an
earlier and less
technologically advanced Austronesian settlement wave, the
Vazimba were ****imilated...
-
circa 1610, when the
Merina King
Andrianjaka (1612–1630)
expelled the
Vazimba inhabitants of the
village of Analamanga.
Declaring it the site of his...
