Anjouan • نْدْزْوَنِ (Ndzuwani) • أنجوان (Anjuwān)

15/16th C.: sultanate founded
21.04.1886: part of French protectorate of Comoros
25.07.1912: annexed by France (sultanate supressed)
06.07.1975: part of independent Comoros
03.08.1997: secession from Comoros (not internationally recognized):
State of Anjouan • دولة الأنجوان (Dawlat al-Anjuwān) • État d'Anjouan
26.10.1997: referendum endorses independence
10.03.2002: autonomous part of the Union of Comoros:
Island of Anjouan • يِسِوَ وَ نْدْزْوَنِ (Yisiwa wa Ndzuwani) • جزائر الأنجوان (Jazā'ir al-Anjuwān) • l'Île d'Anjouan
14.04.2002: end of secession

Area: 424 km²
Population: 65,000 (1952), 188,953 (1991)
Capital: مُتْسَمُدُ (Mut'samudu) • موتسامودو (Mūtsāmūdū) • Mutsamudu
Currency: Comoros franc (since 1975)
Official languages: Comorian-Shindzuwani, Arabic, French

President: Moussa Toybou (07.07.2008)
Before 1893: no modern navy.
1997-2002: data unknown.

Flags

Bf. c1835:

c1835-c1850:

c1850-1893 and since 1997:

Sultans:
1741-1782Saidi Ahmad
1782-1788Abdallah I "Alimiah"
1788-1792Halimah
1792-1796Abdallah I "Alimiah"
1796-1816Alawi bin Husain "Mwinye Fani"
1816-1832Abdallah II bin Alawi
1832-1833Ali bin Salim
1833-1836Abdallah II bin Alawi
1836-1837Saidi Alawi bin Abdallah
1837-1852Salim bin Alawi
1852-02.1891Saidi Abdallah bin Salim
02.1891-04.1891Salim bin Abdallah
04.1891-04.1892Saidi Omar bin Saidi Hasan
04.1892-07.1912  Saidi Mohamed bin Saidi Omar

Presidents:
08.1997-08.1999  Foundi Abdallah Ibrahim
08.1999-08.2001Said Abeid Abdérémane
08.2001-04.2007Col. Mohamed Bacar
04.2007-05.2007Kaambi Houmadi
05.2007-06.2007Dhoihirou Halidi (acting)
06.2007-03.2008Col. Mohamed Bacar
03.2008Ikililou Dhoinine (acting)
03.2008-07.2008Lailizamane Abdou Cheik (interim)
07.2008-Moussa Toybou
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