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...colonial subjects to pursue contacts with their coreligionists around the Indian Ocean.<ref>Mark Frost, "'Wider Opportunities': Religious Revival, Nationalist Awa

...States and southern Africa. The ship cruised along both the Atlantic and [[Indian Ocean]] coasts of Africa and visited 12 ports in 10 countries and received some 2

...cancelled plans to capture Fiji and Samoa, and to increase control of the Indian Ocean. Subsequent operations in the [[Solomons Islands]] were conducted with inad

...ost landmass of [[Oceania]], it lies south of Papua New Guinea, with the [[Indian Ocean]] to the west, the [[South Pacific Ocean]] to the east, and the [[Southern Australia lies between the Indian Ocean to the west and the Pacific Ocean to the east.<ref>Information in this para

...own as '''Ceylon''' before 1972. It is sometimes called the ''Pearl of the Indian Ocean''.

...borders [[Tamil Nadu]] and [[Karnataka]]; to its west and south lie the [[Indian Ocean]] islands of [[Lakshadweep]] and the [[Maldives]], respectively. Kerala nea

...lia]], [[Tanzania]], [[Uganda]] and [[Sudan]]. Its coastline borders the [[Indian Ocean]]. Peace had prevailed since an uprising in the former British colony in th Kenya elevates from low-lying coastal lands along the Indian Ocean to the Highlands in the center of the country. The Kenyan highlands are one

...Markus. "'The World's Oldest Trade': Dutch Slavery and Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean in the Seventeenth Century," ''Journal of World History'' 24.2 (2003) 131-1

...st) took approximately 18 million slaves from Africa via trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean routes.<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory/article-24156 Welcome t

...[[Silk Road]] and Chinese [[maritime history|maritime]] ventures to the [[Indian Ocean]] to reach other formidable empires did not exist until the reign of [[Empe

...at Black self-identity did not emerge in the former slave societies of the Indian Ocean.

...lled the Moors by using artillery, Portuguese warships took control of the Indian Ocean, and Venice defeated the Ottoman Empire at the [[Battle of Lepanto]].<ref>

...harter of 1663 were involved in financial ventures that stretched from the Indian Ocean to West Africa. The colony's interactions with the outside world were limit

...ordered conditions in [[Bengal]] and [[Bihar]], as well as a [[1940s North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons#October 1942 Bengal cyclone|severe cyclone]] which devastat