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The known and sometimes formally documented history of Mauritius begins with its possible discovery by Austronesians (not documented) under the Austronesian expansion from pre-Han Taiwan, circa 1500 to 1000 BC, and then by Arabs, (documented on Portuguese maps), followed by Portuguese and its appearance on European maps in the early 16th century.
Mauritius, [a] officially the Republic of Mauritius, [b] is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about 2,000 kilometres (1,100 nautical miles) off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Agaléga, and St. Brandon (Cargados Carajos shoals).
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Port Louis on the island of Mauritius This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
[1] [4] No other indentured migration has so definitely shaped the future of a nation as the movement of Indian workers to Mauritius, with the result of around half a million Indians settling on the island. [1] Today, up to 1.22 million Mauritians, or 68 percent of the national population, have Indian ancestry, [6] called Indo
National Bird Mauritius Kestrel: On the 17th December 2021, the Cabinet agreed to declare the Mauritius Kestrel (an endemic species unique to Mauritius) the National Bird of Mauritius on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the accession of Mauritius to the status of Republic in March 2022. [49] National Emblem. and. National Motto
Mauritius history-related lists (5 P) B. British Mauritius (21 C, 9 P) D. Dutch Mauritius (1 C, 3 P) E. Historical events in Mauritius (6 C) I. ... National Archives ...
Prior to independence the British government detached the Chagos Archipelago from the Mauritius' administrative boundaries and established as a new British territory in the form of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) and paid GB£3 million (roughly equivalent to £148.7 million in 2022 [5]) to Mauritius in compensation. Prior to this the ...
The National Archives of Mauritius are located in Coromandel, Mauritius. The archives were officially established in 1815, one of the earliest such institutions established in the Southern Hemisphere.