Maldives
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Who the fuck are these people?
Why do they live here?
Where did they come from?
Why do they write weird?
Discuss
It's an archipellago whose population remained isolated from the rest of the world until the Europeans came in. Nothing special.
>>456132
why is it independent tho?
>>459053
because it isn't a colony.
it's not a colony because they said "fuck off we're free" in the 40s/50s when the british dismantled their empire after WW2.
They descend from Indians who left the sub-continent some millennia ago, not exactly a huge mystery
>>456132
Weren't they in contact with muslim traders?
why do you even care?
>>459357
Yeah who cares about history anyways? What is this some kind of history board?
Inb4
>I care about history just not Maldives history
>>459318
>Weren't they in contact with muslim traders?
yes, I think I remember reading Ibn Battuta getting butthurt because they were muslims but the women walked around topless
>>459573
Nobody. Nobody cares about Maldives.
>>455993
They were a Somali colony in the AGE OF AJURAAN. When the Gold ran out they left.
