By 1806 he has conquered the remaining three kingdoms and united them within the former boundaries of Imerina, the capital established at the fortified city of Antananarivo. Radama I (r. 1810- 28), an able and forward-looking monarch, succeeds to the throne in 1810 upon the death of his father.
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In 1810, Radama I succeeded his father Andrianampoinimerina as king of Merina. An ambitious ruler, he first took over the Betsileo area in the southern part of ...
Andrianampoinimerina's son, Radama I (1810–28), allied himself with the British governor of the nearby island of Mauritius, Sir Robert Farquhar.
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Radama, as king from 1810 to 1828, continued his father's policies and made tributaries of most of the kingdoms of Madagascar. He also instituted a policy of ...
From 1817, the central kingdoms Merina, Betsileo, Bezanozano and Sihanaka, unified by Radama I, were known in the outside world as the Kingdom of Madagascar.
With British support, Radama completes the Merina conquest of the Madagascan clans. He is recognised as king of Madagascar by Britain. The Menabe clan in the ...