Maldives

 

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Britain ruled the Maldives 78 years as a British protectorate, The Maldives gained independence in 1965, and its name in the official language is Aldivi Raji (Republic of Maldives), and has a population of 309 thousand people in the square km and its capital Malé.

The Maldives is a member of Alcolmanolt states have joined in 1982 has provided the incumbent President Mohammad Nchedastqalth on Tuesday, 07/02/2012 After three weeks of protests by the opposition and joined by police and handed over power to a deputy Mohammed Waheed Hassan Manik.

Flag of the Republic of Maldives

 

Maldives knew a lot of different names during its long history of more than two thousand years, despite the fact that several different names giving, the location and description of Maldives islands Aokdan it. The name was derived "Maldives" of Maale Dhivehi Raajje. (1) It is Algeria Vebh deadlines (fractured altered and open Almim na tethered). Franks has been on the term Aryan: the leisurely Vebh, and V characters (tethered) non-operative and they said they have not finished Deeb then came to the Maldives and translators in these days they took them without knowledge or stolen they said, "Maldives" is a mistake. And its people - has seen them - still say leisurely Vebh "Vebh deadlines."

Studies indicate comparative linguistics, customs and traditions in the Maldives to the decline of the early settlers Manalslalh Aldrvidah of Kerala in the Sangam (300 BC - 300 AD), and suggest these studies indicate that these settlers Mahm only fishermen came from the southern Indian subcontinent and the western coast of Sri Lanka. The people Garavarro - and who hails from Tamil - one of the first settlers in the Maldives, where they said Maldivian folklore and formed other for a monarchy in Male. It also led cruises to the people of Kerala to Astotan Tamils ​​in each of the Khdib and the Maldives even considered these islands as one group in the archipelago, also led these trips to the affected population of the Maldives in Tamil and Malayalam, and it appears this vulnerability in the names of places, poetry, dance, and religious beliefs. Some argue that the settlers from Gujarat formed the main class of immigration to the Maldives, where the cruise started from Gujarat to the Maldives in the era of the Indus Valley Civilization. Studies also indicate some probability to the advent of some of the early immigrants from Southeast Asia. Kdmalesnhaleon led by Prince Vijaya to the Maldives in the period between the year 543 BC until 483 BC after being forced to leave their homeland in Orissa. According to Mahavenza - a historical poem written in the era of the kings of Sri Lanka - has lost one of the ships in the fleet cruising Prince Vijaba and went to the Maldives. Some evidence also points to the arrival of the Arabs and Asians to the Maldives, especially in the southern atolls of the Maldives.

• - BC 5 BC: The reconstruction of the Maldives from the presence of Buddhists from India and Sri Lanka.
• --1,153 M: Log Maldives in Islam.
• --1,558 - Portuguese occupation

Studies show the comparison of the traditions and customs, cultural, linguistic and oral Maldivian that the early settlers were from Aldravaidyanyen, is likely to be fishermen from the south-western coast of India.

Maldives include almost 1,190 atoll collected in a series of 26 double atoll.

The atoll is composed of live coral reefs and dirt barriers, and the length of the bottom edge below sea level 960 km, which rises abruptly from the depths of the Indian Ocean.

Climate

Sunset in the Maldives

Indian Ocean has a significant impact on the country as a barrier to heat, absorbed, and stores, and issued tropical heat slowly, and the temperature range Maldives between 24-33 m, although the humidity is relatively high, and keep breezes cold sea fixed transmission air and heat a home.