Ambohimanga

Ambohimanga is a hill and traditional fortified royal settlement rova in Madagascar, located approximately 24 kilometers 15 mi northeast of the capital city of Antananarivo. The slope and the rova that stands on top are viewed as the most noteworthy image of the social character of the Merina individuals and the most vital and best-protected landmark of the precolonial Merina Kingdom. The walled noteworthy town incorporates habitations and internment locales of a few key rulers. The site, one of the twelve hallowed slopes of Imerina, is related with solid sentiments of national personality and has kept up its otherworldly and holy character both in custom practice and the prevalent creative ability for no less than four hundred years.

It remains a position of love to which explorers originate from Madagascar and somewhere else. The site has been politically critical since the mid eighteenth century, when King Andriamasinavalona 1675– 1710 partitioned the Kingdom of Imerina into four quadrants and doled out his child Andriantsimitoviaminiandriana to represent the northeastern quadrant, Aadrano, from its recently assigned capital at Ambohimanga. The division of Imerina prompted 77 long periods of common war, amid which time the progressive leaders of Aadrano drove military battles to grow their domain while undertaking changes to the guards at Ambohimanga to more readily ensure it against assaults.