Malagasy Republic

noun

1. former name of Madagascar.

Malagasy Republic

noun

1. the former name (1958–75) of Madagascar

Example Sentences

Last week Scoones released rare color photographs of one of these "living fossils," swimming contentedly for his camera in the Indian Ocean off the Comoro Islands near the Malagasy Republic.

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There was a somewhat different ending last week to a student uprising in the Malagasy Republic�the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar and its dependencies.

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Madagascar, now called the Malagasy Republic, was once the property of France, but the colonials had the decency to leave behind their fine Parisian chefs, who know their escargots.

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Last April, the Malagasy Republic on the island of Madagascar and the Mali Federation, a union of the former French West African colonies of Senegal and Sudan, sought and were granted their complete sovereignty.

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As they passed within range of the tracking station at Tannanarive, in the Malagasy Republic, Command Pilot Armstrong reported that he had easily swung the Gemini-Agena combination around 90�.

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