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What is a Merina?

What is a Merina? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A member of the a highlander Malagasy ethnic group in Madagascar whose core territory corresponds to the former Antananarivo Province in the centre of the island.
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The colonial period was marked by the vacillating popularity of French influence over Merina elites.
Beginning in the early 19th century, most of the island was united and ruled as the Kingdom of Madagascar by a series of Merina nobles.
Modern politics in Madagascar are colored by the history of Merina subjugation of coastal communities under their rule in the 19th century.
Even more importantly, this study presents the Merina empire as an example of a failed secondary empire in similar fashion to nineteenth-century Egypt and Thailand.
In 1896 the French colonizers of Madagascar adopted the Merina capital as their center of colonial administration.
Merina Salandy-Brown, a media consultant who worked with the BBC for 18 years, said the draft code was reactive rather than proactive.

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