History-Mauritius

=**History**=

====Arabs and Malays seafarers knew about Mauritius already around 1000 years B.C, and the island had assumedly no aboriginal population.====

Portuguese seafarers visited the island at 1500 but they didn't settle down.
====The first European colonizing came with the Dutch 1598-1710 and they named the Island Mauritius. In 1712 the French “East Asian party” took over the island, which they called //Île de France.// // In 1835 almost every one of the workers was from India, and it’s still overweight of Indians on the island. //====

==== In 1983 came an offer about making Mauritius to a republic, but it didn’t come through. After a constitution change Mauritius became a republic in 1991, though in the commonwealth. Mauritius have since the independence been a stable democracy, and is today one of the richest countries in Africa. ====

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