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	History of the Maldives Summary
		The history of the Maldives is buried in obscurity owing to the islands' geographical isolation and their comparative insignificance throughout the centuries, even though they are strategically located along the sea routes between Europe and the Far East and were well known to ancient Arabian sailors.
		The history of the Maldives under the ruling sultans is recorded continuously from 1153 to 1821 in the Maldivian Tarikh (a chronicle); it covers the reign of eighty-three sultans.
		Meanwhile, in 1960 Maldives allowed the United Kingdom to continue to use both the Gan and the Hitaddu facilities for a thirty-year period, with the payment of £750,000 over the period of 1960 to 1965 for the purpose of Maldives' economic development.
	www.bookrags.com /History_of_the_Maldives (3030 words)

	History of the Maldives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maldives is a nation consisting of 26 natural atolls comprising of 1192 islands.
		Maldives remained a British crown protectorate until 1953 when the sultanate was suspended and the First Republic was declared under the short-lived presidency of Muhammad Amin Didi.
		Beginning in the 1950s, political history in Maldives was largely influenced by the British military presence in the islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_Maldives (2153 words)

	Maldives Tours, Holidays in Maldives, Travel To Maldives, Maldives Travel Agent, Maldives Travel Guide, Tour Packages ...
		The republic of Maldives, an archipelago (large group of islands) is one of the world's last tropical island paradises in the central Indian Ocean.
		Maldives is a heaven of sea birds also, thus it attracts not only the low budget backpackers but the amateur anthropologists too.
		History reveals that Maldivians were absorbed by Buddhists from Ceylon and by Hindus from India and practiced Buddhism for long, till only the king and his kingdom was converted to Islam by a saint.
	www.tailormadejourneys.com /maldives-holidays-travel (900 words)

	History of Maldives
		Maldives comprises 1,191 islands in the Indian Ocean.
		The early history of the Maldives is obscure.
		Although governed as an independent Islamic sultanate for most of its history from 1153 to 1968, the Maldives was a British protectorate from 1887 until July 25, 1965.
	infotut.com /geography/Maldives (765 words)

	Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on the Maldives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		People "borrowing" sand bags from a nearby construction site, to be used as a barrier to protect their homes from the flood, shortly after being hit by the tsunami generated by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
		Malé, the capital island of the Maldives was severely hit by the tsunami.
		In the Maldives, 82 people were killed and 26 reported missing and presumed dead after it was hit by a tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on 26 December 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Impact_of_the_2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_on_the_Maldives (266 words)

	Paradise Holidays - History of Maldives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Maldives – a collection of 1900 islands in the Indian Ocean was at first inhabited by immigrants from South India and Sri Lanka.
		Maldives was ruled by Sultans and in some occasions Sultanas i.e.
		Maldives has been an independent Sultanate for the majority of its history with the Portuguese and then the British taking it over for a small period.
	www.parahol.com /maldives/history.html (418 words)

	Maldives. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Maldives obtained complete independence as a sultanate in 1965, but in 1968 the ad-Din dynasty, which had ruled the islands since the 14th cent., was ended and a republic was declared.
		Indian troops landed in the Maldives in 1988 to foil one of several coup attempts.
		In the late 1980s the Maldives joined with a number of coral atoll nations to raise international awareness of the consequences of global warming, and in 1989 hosted an international conference to discuss this issue.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ma/Maldives.html (605 words)

	Maldives: history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Republic of the Maldives consists of an archipelago of more than 1,000 coral islands in the Indian Ocean, southwest of India and Sri Lanka, of which only 192 are permanently inhabited.
		European colonizers came to the Maldives quite early on, as it was a compulsory stopover on the way to the Far East.
		In April 1980, the Maldives signed a scientific and technological cooperation agreement with the Soviet Union, and in April 1981, a trade agreement with India, which is the countryâs closest cooperator in the region.
	gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_history.cfm?Id=80 (1791 words)

	Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Maldives still faces the biggest problem in fishing sector, that is protecting resources against poaching by foreign fleets and monitoring the EEZ is a demanding task but failure to do so would lead to over exploitation of the fishers stock as a result of the activities of poachers.
		Maldives has urged the UN to set up an international defense mechanism that could safeguard the independence and sovereignty of the 50 odd small ocean states in the world.
		Though this proclamation was short-lived and died soon after an agreement was arrived at between the Maldives and the Britain in 1960, it did underline the potential of a division.
	www.ipcs.org /ipcs/databaseIndex2.jsp?database=1001&country2=Maldives (2422 words)

	history and how it had happened in the islands of maldives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Maldives was a stopping-off point for many great seafaring civilizations which roamed the high seas long before European maritime history began.
		The history of Maldives after the arrival of Islam in the twelth century is clearer but there are few records.
		Maldives, or Dibajat as they called it, was a strategic center pot on the sea routes to Malacca and China.
	www.hellomaldives.com /maldives/history/contents.htm (5512 words)

	Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Maldives was seriously affected by the tsunami on 26 December which killed 83 people and virtually destroyed 14 inhabited islands, three of which have been permanently abandoned.
		Maldives was an independent Sultanate from 1153 until the Portuguese invaded in 1558.
		Maldives has ratified four of the six UN Human Rights Conventions; Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, and the Convention Against Torture.
	www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1018965337338 (2132 words)

	Maldives travel guide - Maldives online guide covering travel Maldives travel information
		For Ptolemy, the Greek geographer, the Maldives was a multitude of islands.
		The Maldives is in fact an archipelago of some 1,190 islands, formed into 26 natural atolls, and grouped in double rows like a necklace of islands, set vertically across the equator and situated in the Indian Ocean.
		The Maldives is a member of the UN, the Commonwealth and the Non-Aligned Movement and it maintains a very cordial relationship with the international community.
	www.sun-vacations.com /maldives.html (1476 words)

	Ask Maldives - History of Maldives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It was in a period of uncertainty, political rivalry and turmoil in the Maldives that the British offered Maldives a treaty, which was to become a watershed in Maldivian history.
		The agreement was heavily criticised in the Maldives, and led to the resignation of the Prime Minister.
		In 1978 Mr Maumoon Abdul Gayyoom was elected the President of the Maldives.
	www.askmaldives.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=1 (1551 words)

	Maldives History & Maldives Culture \| iExplore.com
		In 1985, the Maldives was a founder member of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) and hosted regional summits in 1990 and 1997.
		With no formal political parties, the Maldives’ politics are personality based; no credible threat to Gayoom has emerged in the 25 years during which he has held power, not least because dissent is firmly repressed by Gayoom’s security forces.
		Hopes that the Maldives might become an oil producer were dashed when a 10-year exploration program failed to locate deposits in the islands’ territorial waters.
	www.iexplore.com /dmap/Maldives/History (769 words)

	Maldives - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The history of the Maldives is as mysterious as the country itself.
		They set sail from different parts of the world - often not realizing that their ultimate destination will be the Maldives where they will find an idyllic place to settle down and live in total serenity for the rest of their lives.
		However, the fact remains that Maldives is one of the few 100 percent Muslim nations in the world.
	www.mal-dives.com /maldives/history.html (462 words)

	Máldives Royal Family Official Website ދިވެހި ...
		Maldives to discipline authors: State-funded textbook writers and publishers are to be severely disciplined, according to Mr Abdul Muhusin Mohamed, a former research student of the University of Waikato and Maldives deputy minister of education.
		Maldive judge claims the power to extradite people: "Chief Judge of the Criminal Court Abdulla Areef said that the establishment of the system to summon people to court even if they were abroad through the intermediary of the embassies and the courts of other countries is a hugely desirable change." (Haveeru 8 February).
		Maldive mullahs say there was no ban on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:Under intense international pressure, the Maldive ruling mullahs are attempting to appear as though they are back-tracking on their recent ban on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
	www.maldivesroyalfamily.com (6589 words)

	WorldTravelGate.net® - The History of Male, Maldives.
		Throughout the Maldives a language which belongs to the Indo-Iranian group, Dhivehi, is spoken.
		The Maldives has been an independent country, except for a brief period of 15 years and 6 months of Portuguese rule in the middle of the 16th century.
		Between 1887 and 1965, the Maldives a British protectorate though Britain did not interfere with the internal affairs of the county.
	www.asiatravelling.net /maldives/male/male_history.htm (219 words)

	Maldives (02/06)
		The Maldives were badly hit by the Asian tsunami of December 26, 2004, which killed 82 and caused substantial damage to Maldives tourism, housing, and fishing infrastructure.
		Maldives follows a nonaligned policy and is committed to maintaining friendly relations with all countries.
		The Maldives is a member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5476.htm (3134 words)

	The Maldives
		Maldivians consider the introduction of Islam in A.D. 1153 as the cornerstone of their country's history.
		Some scholars believe that the name "Maldives" derives from the Sanskrit maladvipa, meaning "garland of islands." In the mid-1980s, the Maldivian government allowed the noted explorer and expert on early marine navigation, Thor Heyerdahl, to excavate ancient sites.
		But Nasir, who was theoretically responsible to then sultan Muhammad Farid Didi, was challenged in 1959 by a local secessionist movement in the southern atolls that benefited economically from the British presence on Gan (see Maldives, Armed Forces in National Life, ch.
	www.vermillionmaldives.com /history.htm (2049 words)

	Maldives Mission to the United Nations
		The scattered islands of the Maldives, washed warm by the crystal clear Indian Ocean, are as rich in history and legend as in natural beauty.
		The earliest history has it that an Aryan prince found his way through the magnificent, yet perilous sharp coral heads, finding an aboriginal race who marveled at this superb navigator and welcomed him to their islands.
		But the Maldives were scattered over seas that were often as dangerous as attacks by brave Maldivians waging daring warfare against the colonialist's.
	www.un.int /maldives/history.htm (850 words)

	Tourism History - Tourism in the Maldives- 25 years of sustainable development by Ahmed NIYAZ
		The outcome was a trip by Mr Corbin to the Maldives during October 1971 in the 'Maldives Exporter', a cargo ship.
		The reefs and surrounding lagoons of the islands of the Maldives are rich in sea life.
		Muman Agency was the first tourist agency to open in the Maldives and was involved in the construction of the first tourist resort, Kurumba Village on Vihamanaafushi.
	www.maldiveisle.com /tourhistory.htm (2165 words)

	maldives map and map of maldives and information page
		The Maldives, a group of about 1,200 islands, separated into a series of coral atolls, is just north of the Equator in the Indian Ocean.
		Landforms The Maldives is a flat series (or chain) of coral atolls, consisting of coral reefs and sand bars.
		The Maldives temperature range runs from 70 to 90ºF (22 to 33ºC) and is consistent throughout most of the year.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/asia/mv.htm (750 words)

	Minicoy Pages- History
		In 1983 a senior official of the Maldive regime, a brother of the Maldive President who is still in power since before then, made a public speech claiming Minicoy for the Maldives.
		In the old Maldive duodecimal system of counting, twelve thousand was a round figure such as a hundred thousand in the decimal system.
		Addu was the Southern-most island in the dominions of the Maldive kings and was in Addu Atoll.
	www.maldivesroyalfamily.com /minicoy_history.shtml (1420 words)

	History of Maldives
		Maldives comprises 1,191 islands in the Indian Ocean.
		The early history of the Maldives is obscure.
		Although governed as an independent Islamic sultanate for most of its history from 1153 to 1968, the Maldives was a British protectorate from 1887 until July 25, 1965.
	www.historyofnations.net /africa/maldives.html (355 words)

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	Maldives
		The Maldives were never under direct British rule but had the status of a protected state without actually becoming a protectorate.
		Much of what is known about the legal history of the Maldives is of an anecdotal nature and is drawn from the works of travellers who had visited the islands at different times.
		The first written constitution of the Maldives was adopted in 1932 and was based on customs and conventions and the traditional modes of administration.
	www.law.emory.edu /IFL/legal/maldives.htm (1443 words)

	Maldives Country Guide - History of Maldives, Presidents, Sultans Constitution
		Malabari pirates from the nearby south Indian coast finally succeeded in 1752 in seizing the Maldivan throne in the capital, Malé.
		Only four months later Maldives regained control under the leadership of Muleege Hassan Maniku or Dhon Bandaarain who belonged to a family from Huraa in Malé Atoll.
		It was evident that the Maldives was not a colony per se, however the government of the Maldives sought the advice of British Governor in Ceylon on major issues.
	www.maldiveisle.com /history.htm (1543 words)

	Shafyq's Home page - Info about Maldives
		On December 16, 1887 the Sultan of the Maldives signs a Protectorate Treaty with England.
		The Sultan receives protective rights for the Maldives, and is obliged to pay a tribute to the English Crown.
		On July 26, 1965 the Maldives becomes independent and in the same year, a full member of the United Nations.
	www.geocities.com /TheTropics/9427/history.htm (727 words)

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