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Architecture of Madagascar

Index Architecture of Madagascar

The architecture of Madagascar is unique in Africa, bearing strong resemblance to the construction norms and methods of Southern Borneo from which the earliest inhabitants of Madagascar are believed to have immigrated. [1]

66 relations: Aloalo, Ambohimanga, Ambositra, Andriamanelo, Andriana, Andrianampoinimerina, Antaifasy, Antaisaka people, Antananarivo, Antandroy, Antemoro people, Architecture of Indonesia, Arecaceae, Bamboo, Bara people, Betsileo people, Borneo, Bubungan Tinggi, Cob (material), Deep foundation, Didiereaceae, Fady (taboo), Famadihana, French Madagascar, Intangible cultural heritage, Isalo National Park, James Cameron (missionary), Jean Laborde, Juncaceae, Kalimantan, Lake Alaotra, Lamba (garment), London Missionary Society, Madagascar, Madagascar spiny forests, Mahafaly, Mahajanga, Malagasy people, Manambondro, Merina Kingdom, Merina people, Mudbrick, Opuntia, Papyrus, Radama I, Raffia palm, Rainforest, Ranavalona I, Ranavalona II, Ravenala, ..., Reed (plant), Rova of Antananarivo, Sakalava people, Slash-and-burn, South Kalimantan, Tanala, Thatching, Toliara, Tongue and groove, Twelve sacred hills of Imerina, UNESCO, UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists, Vazimba, World Heritage site, Zafimaniry, Zebu. Expand index (16 more) »

Aloalo

The aloalo is a funerary pole sculpture that, along with the skulls of slaughtered zebu, is placed on the tombs of important people in the south-western region of Madagascar.

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Ambohimanga

Ambohimanga is a hill and traditional fortified royal settlement (rova) in Madagascar, located approximately northeast of the capital city of Antananarivo.

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Ambositra

Ambositra is a city (commune urbaine) in central Madagascar.

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Andriamanelo

Andriamanelo (''fl.'' 1540–1575) was King of Alasora in the central highlands region of Madagascar.

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Andriana

Andriana refers to both the noble class and a title of nobility in Madagascar.

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Andrianampoinimerina

Andrianampoinimerina (1745–1810) ruled the Kingdom of Imerina from 1787 until his death.

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Antaifasy

The Antaifasy are an ethnic group of Madagascar inhabiting the southeast coastal region around Farafangana.

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Antaisaka people

The Antesaka, also known as Tesaka, or Tesaki, are an ethnic group of Madagascar traditionally concentrated south of Farafangana along the south-eastern coast.

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Antananarivo

Antananarivo (French: Tananarive), also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana, is the capital and largest city of Madagascar.

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Antandroy

The Tandroy may also be called the "'Antandroy'", but "'Tandroy'" is preferable.

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Antemoro people

The Antemoro (or Antaimoro) are an ethnic group of Madagascar living on the southeastern coast, mostly between Manakara and Farafangana.

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Architecture of Indonesia

The architecture of Indonesia reflects the diversity of cultural, historical and geographic influences that have shaped Indonesia as a whole.

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Arecaceae

The Arecaceae are a botanical family of perennial trees, climbers, shrubs, and acaules commonly known as palm trees (owing to historical usage, the family is alternatively called Palmae).

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Bamboo

The bamboos are evergreen perennial flowering plants in the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.

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Bara people

The Bara people are a Malagasy ethnic group living in the southern part of the central plateaus of Madagascar, in the Toliara Province, concentrated around their historic capital at Ihosy.

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Betsileo people

The Betsileo are a highland ethnic group of Madagascar, the third largest in terms of population, numbering around 1.5 million and making up about 12.1 percent of the population.

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Borneo

Borneo (Pulau Borneo) is the third largest island in the world and the largest in Asia.

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Bubungan Tinggi

Rumah Bubungan Tinggi or Rumah Banjar or Rumah Ba-anjung is an iconic type of house in South Kalimantan.

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Cob (material)

Cob, cobb or clom (in Wales) is a natural building material made from subsoil, water, fibrous organic material (typically straw), and sometimes lime.

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Deep foundation

A deep foundation is a type of foundation that transfers building loads to the earth farther down from the surface than a shallow foundation does to a subsurface layer or a range of depths.

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Didiereaceae

Didiereaceae is a family of flowering plants found in continental Africa and Madagascar.

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Fady (taboo)

Fady, in Malagasy culture, refers to a wide range of cultural prohibitions or taboos.

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Famadihana

Famadihana is a funerary tradition of the Malagasy people in Madagascar.

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French Madagascar

The Colony of Madagascar and Dependencies (Colonie de Madagascar et dépendances) was a French colony off the coast of Southeast Africa between 1897 and 1958.

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Intangible cultural heritage

An intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a practice, representation, expression, knowledge, or skill, as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts, and cultural spaces that are considered by UNESCO to be part of a place's cultural heritage.

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Isalo National Park

Isalo National Park is a National Park in the Ihorombe Region of Madagascar.

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James Cameron (missionary)

James Cameron (1799–1875) was a 19th-century Scottish artisan missionary with a background in carpentry who, over the course of twenty-three years of service in Madagascar with the London Missionary Society (1826–1835; 1861–1875), played a major role in the Christianization and industrialization of that island state, then under the rule of the Merina monarchy.

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Jean Laborde

Jean Laborde (16 October 1805 in Auch - 27 December 1878 in Madagascar) was an adventurer and early industrialist in Madagascar.

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Juncaceae

Juncaceae is a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the rush family.

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Kalimantan

Kalimantan is the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo.

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Lake Alaotra

Lake Alaotra (Lac Alaotra) is the largest lake in Madagascar, located in Toamasina Province, in the northern central plateau.

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Lamba (garment)

A lamba is the traditional garment worn by men and women that live in Madagascar.

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London Missionary Society

The London Missionary Society was a missionary society formed in England in 1795 by evangelical Anglicans and various nonconformists.

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Madagascar

Madagascar (Madagasikara), officially the Republic of Madagascar (Repoblikan'i Madagasikara; République de Madagascar), and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa.

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Madagascar spiny forests

The Madagascar spiny forests (also known as the Madagascar spiny thickets) is an ecoregion in the southwest of Madagascar.

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Mahafaly

The Mahafaly are an ethnic group of Madagascar that inhabit the plains of the Betioky-Ampanihy area.

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Mahajanga

Mahajanga (French: Majunga) is a city and an administrative district on the northwest coast of Madagascar.

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Malagasy people

The Malagasy (Malgache) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the island and country of Madagascar.

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Manambondro

Manambondro is a town and commune in Madagascar.

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Merina Kingdom

The Merina Kingdom, or Kingdom of Madagascar, officially the Kingdom of Imerina (1540–1897) was a pre-colonial state off the coast of Southeast Africa that, by the 19th century, dominated most of what is now Madagascar.

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Merina people

The Merina people, also known as the Imerina, Antimerina or Hova, are the largest ethnic group in Madagascar.

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Mudbrick

A mudbrick or mud-brick is a brick, made of a mixture of loam, mud, sand and water mixed with a binding material such as rice husks or straw.

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Opuntia

Opuntia, commonly called prickly pear, is a genus in the cactus family, Cactaceae.

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Papyrus

Papyrus is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface.

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Radama I

Radama I "the Great" (1793–1828) was the first Malagasy sovereign to be recognized as King of Madagascar (1810-1828) by a European state.

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Raffia palm

Raffia palms (Raphia) are a genus of about twenty species of palms native to tropical regions of Africa, and especially Madagascar, with one species (R. taedigera) also occurring in Central and South America.

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Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with annual rainfall in the case of tropical rainforests between, and definitions varying by region for temperate rainforests.

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Ranavalona I

Ranavalona I (born Rabodoandrianampoinimerina; 1778 – August 16, 1861), also known as Ramavo and Ranavalo-Manjaka I, was sovereign of the Kingdom of Madagascar from 1828 to 1861.

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Ranavalona II

Ranavalona II (1829 – 13 July 1883) was Queen of Madagascar from 1868 to 1883, succeeding Queen Rasoherina, her first cousin.

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Ravenala

Ravenala is a genus of flowering plants with a single species, Ravenala madagascariensis, commonly known as traveller's tree or traveller's palm, from Madagascar.

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Reed (plant)

Reed is a common name for several tall, grass-like plants of wetlands.

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Rova of Antananarivo

The Rova of Antananarivo (Rovan'i Manjakamiadana) is a royal palace complex (rova) in Madagascar that served as the home of the sovereigns of the Kingdom of Imerina in the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as of the rulers of the Kingdom of Madagascar in the 19th century.

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Sakalava people

The Sakalava are an ethnic group of Madagascar.

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Slash-and-burn

Slash-and-burn agriculture, or fire–fallow cultivation, is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden.

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South Kalimantan

South Kalimantan (Kalimantan Selatan) is a province of Indonesia.

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Tanala

The Tanala are a Malagasy ethnic group that inhabit a forested inland region of south-east Madagascar near Manakara.

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Thatching

Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes, heather, or palm fronds, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.

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Toliara

Toliara (also known as Toliary,; formerly Tuléar) is a city in Madagascar.

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Tongue and groove

Tongue and groove is a method of fitting similar objects together, edge to edge, used mainly with wood, in flooring, parquetry, panelling, and similar constructions.

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Twelve sacred hills of Imerina

The twelve sacred hills of Imerina are hills of historical significance to the Merina people of Madagascar.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists

UNESCO established its Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage with the aim of ensuring better protection of important intangible cultural heritages worldwide and the awareness of their significance.

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Vazimba

The Vazimba (Malagasy), according to popular belief, were the first inhabitants of Madagascar.

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World Heritage site

A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.

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Zafimaniry

The Zafimaniry are a sub-group of the Betsileo ethnic group of Madagascar. They live in the forested mountains of the southern central highlands southeast of Ambositra, between the neighboring Betsileo and Tanala peoples.

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Zebu

A zebu (Bos primigenius indicus or Bos indicus or Bos taurus indicus), sometimes known as indicine cattle or humped cattle, is a species or subspecies of domestic cattle originating in the Indian Subcontinent.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Madagascar

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