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The first Europeans to visit the Comoros …
Years: 1396 - 1539
The first Europeans to visit the Comoros are the Portuguese, who land on Njazidja around 1505.
The islands first appear on a European map in 1527, that of Portuguese cartographer Diogo Roberos.
Dutch sixteenth-century accounts describe the Comoros' sultanates as prosperous trade centers with the African coast and Madagascar.
Intense competition for this trade, and, increasingly, for European commerce, results in constant warfare among the sultanates, a situation that will persist until the French occupation.
The sultans of Njazidja only occasionally recognize the supremacy of one of their number as tibe, or supreme ruler.
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- Interaction with Subsaharan Africa, Early European
- Colonization of Asia, Portuguese
- Sub-Saharan Africa, Modern
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Years: 1396 - 1539
Locations
Groups
Topics
- Interaction with Subsaharan Africa, Early European
- Colonization of Asia, Portuguese
- Sub-Saharan Africa, Modern
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions