Fort-Dauphin is a city on the southeast coast of Madagascar. It is the capital of the Anosy Region and of the Taolagnaro District. It has been a port of local importance since the early 1500s. A new port, the Ehoala Port was built in 2006–2009. Fort-Dauphin was the first French settlement in Madagascar.
The Catholic Church in Madagascar is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
Betroka is a hilly city in the Anosy Region in southern Madagascar, and is the source of the Onilahy River.
Ihosy is a city with 39,556 inhabitants (2018) in Ihorombe Region in central south Madagascar.
Atsimo-Atsinanana is a region in Madagascar. Its capital is Farafangana. The region used to be part of the Fianarantsoa Province.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toliara is one of five Metropolitan archdioceses with an Ecclesiastical province in Madagascar, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tolagnaro is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Fort-Dauphin in Madagascar. It depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Anosy is one of the 23 regions of Madagascar. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the eastern side of what was once the Toliara Province. The name Anosy means "island(s)" in Malagasy.
Antanimora Sud is a town and commune in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Ambovombe-Androy, which is a part of Androy Region.
Beraketa is a town and commune in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Bekily, which is a part of Androy Region.
Manambondro is a rural municipality in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Vangaindrano, which is a part of Atsimo-Atsinanana Region. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 15,000 in 2001 commune census.
Abraham Samuel, also known as "Deaan Tuley-Noro" or "Tolinar Rex", was a mulatto pirate of the Indian Ocean in the days of the Pirate Round in the late 1690s. He was said to be born in Martinique or Jamaica, or possibly or Anosy, Madagascar. Shipwrecked on his way back to New York from Madagascar, he briefly led a combined pirate-Antanosy kingdom from Fort Dauphin, Madagascar, from 1697 until he died there in 1705.
Route nationale 13 is a primary highway in Madagascar of 493 km, running from Ihosy to Tolagnaro (Fort-Dauphin). It crosses the regions of Ihorombe, Androy and Anosy.
Route nationale 10 is an unpaved, secondary highway in Madagascar of 512 km, running from Andranovory to Ambovombe. It crosses the regions of Atsimo-Andrefana and Androy.
Jean-Pierre-Dominique Zévaco was a Catholic bishop.
The district of Taolagnaro is a district of Anosy in Madagascar.
Lycée Privé La Clairefontaine, also known as the Collège La Clairefontaine or the École La Clairefontaine, is a private French international school, serving preschool through senior high school, with campuses in the Antananarivo area and in Tôlanaro (Fort-Dauphin) in Madagascar.
Barthlottia madagascariensis is the only species in the genus Barthlottia of flowering plants in the family Scrophulariaceae. The large shrub with conspicuous purple flowers is native to a very restricted area in southeast Madagascar and was described in 1996.
Route nationale 12a is a primary highway in Madagascar of 232 km, running from Vangaindrano to Tôlanaro. It crosses the regions of Anosy and Atsimo-Atsinanana. 10 ferries have to be taken along this road.
The Massacre of Fort Dauphin was a massacre that took place in the evening of 27 August 1674 in the coastal French colony of Fort-Dauphin, in the Anosy region of modern-day Tolagnaro, Madagascar. Perpetrated by the nearby indigenous Antanosy population, it was directed against French colonists who had been settled in Fort-Dauphin beginning in 1642 as part of an initiative to settle the island of Madagascar by the Kingdom of France. The massacre marked the end of the first wave of french colonisation of Madagascar.
