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Réunion (, ; previously Île Bourbon ) is a French island with a population of about 800, 000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.
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The Communist Party of Réunion (, PCR ) is a Communist political party in the French overseas department of Réunion ( in the Indian Ocean ).
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Formerly, they were administered from Paris by an assisted by a secretary-general ; since December 2004, however, their administrator has been a préfet, currently Rollon Mouchel-Blaisot, with headquarters in Saint-Pierre on Réunion Island.
V. fragrans ), grown on Madagascar, Réunion, and other tropical areas along the Indian Ocean ; V. tahitensis, grown in the South Pacific ; and V. pompona, found in the West Indies, and Central and South America.
A Ciconia bone found in a rock shelter on the island of Réunion was probably of a bird taken there as food by early settlers ; no known account mentions the presence of storks on the Mascarene Islands.
At the close of the Napoleonic Wars, most of France's colonies were restored to it by Britain, notably Guadeloupe and Martinique in the West Indies, French Guiana on the coast of South America, various trading posts in Senegal, the Île Bourbon ( Réunion ) in the Indian Ocean, and France's tiny Indian possessions ; though Britain finally annexed Saint Lucia, Tobago, the Seychelles, and the Isle de France ( now Mauritius ).
Since the 1980s the French government has opened new museums of colonial artifacts including the Musée du Quai Branly and the Cité Nationale de l ’ Histoire de l ’ Immigration, in Paris ; the Centre Culturel Tjibaou in New Caledonia ; and the Maison des Civilisations et de l ’ Unité Réunionnaise in Réunion.
The Islands are volcanic in origin ; Saya de Malha ( 35 mya ) was the first of the Mascarene islands to rise out of the Indian Ocean due to the Réunion hotspot, followed by Nazareth Bank ( some 2, 000 yrs later ), Soudan Bank and Cargados Carajos.
Bourbon vanilla is named for the period when the island of Réunion was ruled by the Bourbon kings of France ; it does not contain Bourbon whiskey.
The founders of La Réunion intended it to become a socialist utopian colony ; they were inspired by the writings of the French philosopher Charles Fourier, who advocated communal production and distribution for communal profit.
In 1860 the nearby emerging town of Dallas incorporated La Réunion into its land area ; the remaining skilled colonists were absorbed into its specialized workers.
Eventually what had been cultivated as farmland at La Réunion was discovered to be covering large deposits of limestone ; it was gradually quarried and transported to build the growing state of Texas.
The first brewery and butcher shops in Dallas were established by former colonists from La Réunion ; Maxime Guillot opened a carriage factory that operated for 50 years, helping to make Dallas the world center of the carriage and harness-making industries by 1900.
Until the 1930s, Chinese migrants continued to arrive in Port Louis, but with the strain on the local economy's ability to absorb them, many found that Mauritius would only be their first stop ; they went on to the African mainland ( especially South Africa ), as well as to Madagascar, Réunion, and Seychelles.
Most of The Mirrors readers are in their forties or older ; it has subscribers not just in Mauritius, but Réunion, Madagascar, Canada, China, Australia and Hong Kong as well.
The Cirque de Mafate is a caldera on Réunion Island ( France ; located in the Indian Ocean ).
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* Île Bourbon, former name for the Island of Réunion
It is also locally referred to as Île de la Réunion.
The majority of the world's vanilla is the V. planifolia variety, more commonly known as Bourbon vanilla ( after the former name of Réunion, Île Bourbon ) or Madagascar vanilla, which is produced in Madagascar and neighboring islands in the southwestern Indian Ocean, and in Indonesia.
* Bourbon vanilla or Bourbon-Madagascar vanilla, produced from V. planifolia plants introduced from the Americas, is the term used for vanilla from Indian Ocean islands such as Madagascar, the Comoros, and Réunion, formerly the Île Bourbon.
For two years he was in the service of the Portuguese Viceroy of Goa, but in 1735 he returned to French service as governor of the Isle de France ( now Mauritius ) and the Île de Bourbon ( Réunion ).
Colonies were also founded in the Indian Ocean, on the Île de Bourbon ( Réunion, 1664 ), Isle de France ( Mauritius, 1718 ), and the Seychelles ( 1756 ).
From 4 June 1735 to 23 March 1746, a single French Mascarene Islands chartered colony under one gouverneur général ( governor general ) contained Isle de France ( now Mauritius ), Île Bourbon ( Réunion ) and Séchelles ( Seychelles ).
Furthermore, until 1735, Isle de France was administered from Île Bourbon, now known as Réunion.
Colonies were also founded in the Indian Ocean, on the Île de Bourbon ( Réunion, 1664 ), Isle de France ( now Mauritius, 1718 ), and the Seychelles ( 1756 ).
The return trip was first delayed by dysentery, and further when his ship was caught in a storm and dropped him off at Île Bourbon ( Réunion ), where he had to wait until a Spanish ship took him home.
NGK Insulators Ltd. develops sodium – sulfur batteries as grid storage in Japan, France ( Île de la Réunion ) and the United States.
The island is located about southwest of the larger Île Amsterdam, and south of Réunion.
Instead it stayed for 21 days in Réunion and 9 days at Île Sainte-Marie near the coast of Madagascar.
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The company failed to establish a colony on Madagascar but established ports on the nearby islands of Bourbon ( now Réunion ) and Isle de France ( now Mauritius ).
The Company failed to found a colony on Madagascar but established ports on the nearby islands of Bourbon and Île-de-France ( today's Réunion and Mauritius respectively ).
“ Réunion ” was the name given to the island in 1793 by a decree of the Convention with the fall of the House of Bourbon in France, and the name commemorates the union of revolutionaries from Marseille with the National Guard in Paris, which took place on 10 August 1792.
When it was restored to France by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the island retained the name of " Bourbon " until the fall of the restored Bourbons during the French Revolution of 1848, when the island was once again given the name “ Réunion ”.
Arrested in the Isle of Bourbon ( now Réunion ) under the Terror, he was freed by the Reaction of Thermidor ( July 1794 ).
But the danger to their settlements and power was partly averted by the bitter mutual jealousy which existed between Dupleix and Bertrand François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, French governor of the Isle of Bourbon ( today's La Réunion ).
* borbonica: from Bourbon ( now called Réunion ).
De Parny came from an aristocratic family from the region of Berry, which had settled on the Isle of Bourbon ( now Réunion ) in 1698.
His friend Edward Clodd mentioned New York as another claimed location but asserted that du Chaillu's true birthplace was the French island territory of Bourbon ( Réunion ).
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The area of long-term eruption ( the hotspot ), known as the Réunion hotspot, is suspected of both causing the Deccan Traps eruption and opening the rift that once separated the Seychelles plateau from India.
The island, garrisoned by a detachment from Réunion, has a weather station and is visited by scientists.
International tourism is a significant factor in the local economy of Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Réunion, Hawaii and the Maldives, among others.
Réunion is an island in Southern Africa, in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar.
The climate in Réunion is tropical, but temperature moderates with elevation.
The population of Réunion is 720, 934 as of 2000.
Réunion, is an overseas département of France.
The island's conventional name is the Department of Réunion, or Réunion.
Réunion is governed by French law, and its constitution is the French constitution of 28 September 1958.
The gap in Réunion between the well-off and the poor is large and accounts for the persistent social tensions.
The top-level domain for Réunion is " RE ".
Réunion possesses a merchant marine of one ship with a weight exceeding 1, 000GRT, which is a chemical tanker.
The island's weather station, which warns of cyclones, is still operated by France and is staffed by meteorologists from Réunion.
* December 20 – Slavery is abolished in Réunion.
The international airport of La Réunion, Roland Garros Airport, is also named after him.
Most freight is sent first to Mombasa or Réunion and transshipped from there.
This rift formation is associated with the Réunion hotspot which is also responsible for Réunion Island and the Deccan Traps in India.
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