the most important Malagasy king. Capturing Tana in 1794, 'Nampoina', as he is often known to historians, left behind a legal system so appropriate that the French at first continued it rather than replacing with their usual Code Napoleon.

Nampoina's name is not normally hyphenated: here the hyphens serve to separate portions known from elsewhere in the glossary. "Andriana" were the nobles; "Merina" is the principal tribe.