DeCS

Descritor em português:	Madagáscar
Descritor em inglês:	Madagascar
Descritor em espanhol:	Madagascar
Descritor em francês:	Madagascar
Termo(s) alternativo(s):	République de Madagascar République malgache
Código(s) hierárquico(s):	Z01.639.520.500
Identificador Único RDF:	https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008270
Nota de escopo:	One of the Indian Ocean Islands off the southeast coast of Africa. Its capital is Antananarivo. It was formerly called the Malagasy Republic. Discovered by the Portuguese in 1500, its history has been tied predominantly to the French, becoming a French protectorate in 1882, a French colony in 1896, and a territory within the French union in 1946. The Malagasy Republic was established in the French Community in 1958 but it achieved independence in 1960. Its name was changed to Madagascar in 1975. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p714)
Nota de indexação:	the largest of the Indian Ocean Islands; entry term MALAGASY REPUBLIC was its former name
Qualificadores permitidos:	EH ethnologie EP épidémiologie
Identificador DeCS:	8442
ID do descritor:	D008270
Documentos indexados na Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS):	Clique aqui para acessar os documentos da BVS
Data de estabelecimento:	01/01/1980
Data de entrada:	01/01/1999
Data de revisão:	03/07/2012