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  Madagascar Head
Known as Ranavalo-Manyka I or Ranavalona I. She was married when she was almost a child to Radama, king of the "hovas" and was accused of poisening her husband in agreement with the protestant English missionaries who were her friends.
Ranavalona I largely took revenge on Europeans left in the Island because of these actions against her.
In her Coronation address Ranavalona III stated that she had inherited the rule of the whole Island not of a part of in and she said that the sea was the only boundaries to her States.
www.guide2womenleaders.com /Madagascar_Heads.htm   (511 words)

  
  Ranavalona I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Ranavalona I (1782-1861), Queen of Madagascar, was born Rabodoandrianampoinimerina (Ramavo).
She persecuted and expelled foreigners, including the island's missionaries, in 1835, and extended her rule all over the island with her 20,000-man army.
Queen Ranavalona died hated by her subjects and foreign countries alike.
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/r/ra/ranavalona_i.html   (139 words)

  
 Ranavalona I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1782-1861), Queen of Merina, was born Rabodoandrianampoinimerina (Ramavo).
Ranavalona was a violent persecutor of Christians; after expelling the missionaries failed to eradicate Christianity from her island, she began a gruesome scourging of the land.
Queen Ranavalona died hated by her subjects and foreign countries alike, although a few revisionists have given her some credit for preserving traditional forms of poetry.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ranavalona_I   (491 words)

  
 Ranavalona I
She was married to Radama when she was almost a child, and was suspected of poisoning her husband.
Radama left no descendants when he died and Ranavalona took the throne in 1828 after eliminating any potential rivals.
Queen Ranavalona died hated by her subjects and foreign countries alike.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ra/Ramavo.html   (106 words)

  
 Women Leaders in Africa
Also known as Ranavalo-Manjka I or Ranavalona I. She was married when she was almost a child to Radama, king of the "Hovas" and was accused of poisoning her husband in agreement with the protestant English missionaries.
She had the misfortune to be caught up in the endgame of the maneuvering that had been going on between the British and French since the beginning of the century.
Ranavalona was deposed and sent to the island of Réunion.
www.guide2womenleaders.com /womeninpower/Africa.htm   (6927 words)

  
 The Politically Correct Realm... [Archive] - OD Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Rabodoandrianampoinimerina was born into the Menabe (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Menabeandaction=edit) tribe somewhere between 1782 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1782) and 1790 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1790).
Little is known of Ranavalona's early life, but it was during her first years that the King Andrianampoinimerina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrianampoinimerina) was attempting to unite Madagascar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar)'s various factions under a single crown.
However, Ranavalona's favorite method of execution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_%28legal%29) was to have a prisoner placed in a pit at the bottom of a hill and have her soldiers, at the top of the hill, tip over pots of boiling water; when the water reached the pit, it would slowly rise up and boil the prisoner alive.
www.originaldissent.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-22078.html   (1414 words)

  
 MADAGASCAR
Ranavalona (by ANDRIANALY), may possibly have been the Head of the Royal House of Madagascar following Queen Ranavalona III's death in 1917.
Queen Ranavalona I [Rabodoandrianampoinimerina, Ramavo] 1828/1861, born 1782/1790, married 1stly, King RADAMA I (qv), married 2ndly, RAINIHARO, son of Andriantsilavo, son of Ramavokely, Prime Minister of Madagascar 1833/1852, died 10th February 1852, and had issue by General ANDRIAMIHAJA, died 1833.
Queen Ranavalona II [Ramoma] 1868/1883, born 1829, married 1stly King RADAMA II (qv), married 2ndly 21st February 1869 in Tananarive, RAINILAIARIVONY, born 30th January 1828, (son of RAINIHARO and Rabodomiarana), Prime Minister of Madagascar 1864/1895, died 17th July 1896 in Algiers, buried 4th October 1900 in Isoraka.
www.uq.net.au /~zzhsoszy/states/africa/madagascar.html   (733 words)

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