* The Glorioso Islands ( French Îles Glorieuses ) were administratively attached to the archipelago before 1975, and, geologically speaking, form a part of the archipelago.

The Iles Glorieuses, i. e. Glorioso Islands, were on 2 March 1880 settled and named by Frenchman Hippolyte Caltaux ( b. 1847 – d.

Opposition to the absolute monarchy was immediately expressed in the streets of Paris as suppressed deputies, gagged journalists, students from the University and many working men of Paris poured into the streets and erected barricades during the " three glorious days " ( French Les Trois Glorieuses ) of 26 – 29 July 1830.

This uprising is known as Les Trois Glorieuses ( the Three Glorious Days ), named after the French July Revolution against King Charles X in 1830.

In 1830 the discontent caused by these changes and Charles X's authoritarian nomination of the Ultra prince de Polignac as minister culminated in an uprising in the streets of Paris, known as the 1830 July Revolution ( or, in French, " Les trois Glorieuses "-The three Glorious days-of 27, 28 and July 29 ).

While their counterparts at Polytechnique were making history in the streets during les Trois Glorieuses, Galois and all the other students at the École Normale were locked in by the school's director.

Île du Lys, located at about five miles ( about 8 km ) northeast of Grande Glorieuses, is about long and consists of sand dunes and scrub with some mangroves.

Grande Glorieuses is roughly circular and measures about across.

* West Madagascar Marine ( Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte and Iles Glorieuses ( France ), Seychelles )

The Glorieuses have an Exclusive Economic Zone ( EEZ ) of.

Perhaps earlier known to Arab navigators, the Glorieuses were named and settled in 1880 by a Frenchman, Hippolyte Caltaux, who established a coconut plantation on Grande Glorieuse.

Furthermore, the end of the Trente Glorieuses ( Thirty Glorious ) period of growth witnesses the beginning of a structural unemployment, which became an important political issue.

He had socialist leanings and supported the opposition to Fulbert Youlou in Les Trois Glorieuses of August 1963.

It was completely destroyed during the Second World War and was entirely rebuilt in a modernist style, during the Trente Glorieuses, the thirty-year period from 1945-1975.

Meanwhile, Germany, Austria, France and other Western European nations experienced increased economic growth in the Wirtschaftswunder (" economic miracle ") Trente Glorieuses (" thirty glorious years ") and the post-war boom.

During the 1945-1975 period, France experienced unprecedented economic growth ( 4. 5 % on average ) and a demographic boom, leading to the coinage of the term Trente Glorieuses (" Thirty Glorious ").

* Les Trois Glorieuses of 1963 in Congo-Brazzaville, a successful coup d ' état led by the Confédération générale aéfienne du travail and the Union de la jeunesse congolaise against Fulbert Youlou established the People's Republic of the Congo.

Between 1947 and 1973, France went through a booming period ( 5 % per year in average ) dubbed by Jean Fourastié Trente Glorieuses, title of a book published in 1979.

During the “ Les Trois Glorieuses ” revolution in 1830, Soyer fled to England and joined the London household of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, where his brother Philippe was head chef.

On September 7, 2006, the CIA also merged the entries for Bassas da India, Europa Island, the Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island, and Tromelin Island into a new Iles Eparses entry.

Comoros claims French-administered Mayotte & the Glorioso Islands.

* Madagascar claims Bassas da India, Europa Island, Glorioso Islands and Juan de Nova Island

* Seychelles claims the Glorioso Islands

File: Glorioso Islands. jpg | Satellite image of the islands

Category: Glorioso Islands

Mauritius claims the entire Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean ; claims the whole French-administered Tromelin Island, Bassas da India, Europa Island, Glorioso Islands, and Juan de Nova Island

* Glorioso Islands

Seychelles claims the French-owned Glorioso Islands in the Indian Ocean.

* One overseas territory ( territoire d ' outre-mer, or TOM ): the French Southern and Antarctic Lands divided into 5 districts: Kerguelen Islands, Crozet Islands, Amsterdam Island and Île Saint-Paul, Adelie Land, and the Scattered islands ( Banc du Geyser, Bassas da India, Europa, Juan de Nova, Glorioso, and Tromelin ).

The islet of Banc du Geyser and the Glorioso Islands are sometimes included as part of the archipelago.

Three of the islands — the Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova and Europa — and the Bassas da India atoll lie in the Mozambique Channel west of Madagascar, while the fourth island, Tromelin, lies about east of Madagascar.

Except for Bassas da India, they all support meteorological stations: those on the Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova and Europa Island are automated.

Mauritius claims Tromelin ; the Comoros and Seychelles claim the Glorioso Islands ; the Comoros and Madagascar claim Banc du Geyser ; and Madagascar claims the remaining islands.

Starr was in the process of divorcing her husband, club owner Carroll Glorioso, and Long was married to the state's first lady, known colloquially as Miz Blanche.

Sergio Leone, the director of Spaghetti Westerns, grew up in Viale Glorioso ( there is a marble plaque to his memory on the wall of the apartment building ), and went to a Catholic private school in the neighborhood.

Justin adopts a rudo ( bad guy ) Luchador persona, El Glorioso, or The Glorious One, with his own wrestling mask.

Shannon analyzed the controversial departure of Robert Glorioso from DEC in terms of the struggle for control of the company as it began to founder in the 1990s.

In HMS Warwick, he participated in the action against the Glorioso, but without proper support from the Lark ( which was sailing with the Warwick ), the enemy escaped.

The Cayman Islands were officially declared and administered as a dependency of Jamaica from 1863, but were rather like a parish of Jamaica with the nominated justices of the peace and elected vestrymen in their Legislature.

In 1959, upon the formation of the Federation of the West Indies the dependency status with regards to Jamaica ceased officially although the Governor of Jamaica remained the Governor of the Cayman Islands and had reserve powers over the Islands.

Today, the Cook Islands are essentially independent ( self-governing in free association with New Zealand ), but are still officially placed under New Zealand sovereignty.

Ecuador is divided into three continental regions — the Costa ( coast ), Sierra ( mountains ), and Oriente ( east )— and one insular region, the Galápagos Islands ( officially Archipiélago de Colón ).

The Kerguelen Islands ( or ; in French commonly or but officially or, ), also known as the Desolation Islands, are a group of islands in the southern Indian Ocean constituting one of the two emerged parts of the mostly submerged Kerguelen Plateau.

The Kerguelen Islands, along with the islands of Amsterdam and St. Paul, and the Crozet archipelago were officially annexed by France in 1893, and were included as possessions in the French constitution in 1924 ( in addition to that portion of Antarctica claimed by France and known as Adélie Land ; as with all Antarctic territorial claims, France's possession on the continent is held in abeyance until a new international treaty is ratified that defines each claimant's rights and obligations ).

The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (), is an island country located in the northern Pacific Ocean.

In 1979, the Government of the Marshall Islands was officially established and the country became self-governing.

The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ( CNMI ), is one of the two insular area Commonwealths of the United States of America, the other being Puerto Rico.

Samoa (; Samoan: Sāmoa, ), officially the Independent State of Samoa ( Samoan: Malo Sa ' oloto Tuto ' atasi o Sāmoa ), formerly known as Western Samoa, is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

The Tripartite Convention of 1899 partitioned the Samoan Islands into two parts: the eastern island group became a territory of the United States ( the Tutuila Islands in 1900 and officially Manu ' a in 1904 ) and is today known as American Samoa ; the western islands, by far the greater landmass, became known as German Samoa after Britain vacated all claims to Samoa and accepted termination of German rights in Tonga and certain areas in the Solomon Islands and West Africa.

** Teddy Seymour is officially designated the first black man to sail around the world, when he completes his solo sailing circumnavigation in Frederiksted, St. Croix, of the United States Virgin Islands.

After the Government of Barbados officially exited from the Windward Island union in 1885, the seat was moved from Bridgetown to St. George's on the neighbouring island of Grenada, where it remained until the territory of the Windward Islands was dissolved.

However, in 1901 the Legislative Council was finally formally dissolved, and the islands were then officially administered through the Governor of the Leeward Islands, who appointed a commissioner and an executive council.

The Chatham Islands Council is often counted by many as a unitary authority, but it is officially recognised as a part of the region of Canterbury.

Bermuda ( officially, The Bermuda Islands or The Somers Isles ) is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Like the rest of the Channel Islands, Herm was formerly officially administered solely in the French language.

The church is officially established in the following countries and territories: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, the Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d ' Ivoire ( Ivory Coast ), Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Fiji, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Guam, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Republic of China ( Taiwan ), Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Venezuela, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.