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What is the present name of MADAGASCAR?
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Asked by Santiranjan Pal,
16 Apr '11 10:04 am
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Madagascar gets its current name from Marco Polo, the fourteenth-century Italian explorer, who described an African island of untold wealth called Madeigascar in his memoirs. Polo heard about the island second-hand during his travels in Asia. Most scholars believe that he described Mogadishu, the port located in present-day Somalia. Nevertheless, Italian cartographers attached the name "Madagascar" to the island during the Renaissance.
It changed its name to Malagasy fairly recently but later changed it back.
It changed its name to Malagasy fairly recently but later changed it back.
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Answered by uv dabholkar, 16 Apr '11 10:09 am
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