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Island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, located in eight hundred kilometers to the east of Madagascar, along with a couple dozen neighboring islands gained independence from Britain.At the same time remaining within the British Commonwealth.Twenty four years later, on March 12 of 1992, was proclaimed the Republic of Mauritius.
At the beginning of the XVI century, when the Portuguese discovered the island was uninhabited.It then passed from hand to hand - the Dutch, French, British.Today ...
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