Comoros
Capital: Moroni · East Africa & Horn
Indian Ocean 'islands of the moon' where Swahili, Arab, Malagasy and African currents produced sultanates, grand marriages and scented plantations.
Ethnic communities
- ComoriansSwahili-related island society organized around the ãda grand marriage
More communities of Comoros
- Ngazidja communities — Grande Comore's anda great-marriage society
- Ndzuwani communities — Anjouan's perfume-plantation valleys
- Mwali communities — Mohéli's fisher-farmer villages
- Shirazi lineages — Persian-linked founding families of the sultanates
- Sharifian houses — Prophet-descended lineages of religious rank
- Makua-descended folk — African-mainland heritage communities
- Malagasy-descended folk — Cross-channel kin of the great island
- Fisher lineages — Galawa outrigger masters of the reefs
- Matrilineal great houses — Property and marriage flow through women
- Sufi brotherhoods — Shadhili and Qadiri zikr communities
- Indian merchant families — Gujarati trading houses of the ports
- Mayotte-linked Bushi folk — Kin communities across the disputed channel
Languages
Major languages: Shikomori (Comorian), Arabic, French
Language families: Niger-Congo (Bantu, Sabaki)
Historical kingdoms & states
- • Sultanates of Ndzuwani (Anjouan), Bambao and others
Heritage sites
- • Medina of Moroni
- • Old Friday Mosque
Cultural highlights
Anda grand marriage ceremoniesTwarab musicYlang-ylang perfume heritage