Sunday, November 6, 2011

11-11-06 Welcome Reunion - Newest Country! // Bienvenido Reunion - el país más nuevo! // 欢迎留尼汪岛 - 最新国家!

Newest Country

Reunion
Last Visited November 6, 2011



  

 
The Portuguese discovered the uninhabited island in 1513. 

From the 17th to the 19th centuries, French immigration, supplemented by influxes of Africans, Chinese, Malays, and Malabar Indians, gave the island its ethnic mix. 

The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 cost the island its importance as a stopover on the East Indies trade route.

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