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The Seychelles (officially the Republic of Seychelles / Republique des Seychelles), is an island nation (with a total area of ??455 square kilometers, of the Indian Ocean, consisting of around 115 islands with Victoria as its capital.
Mae is larger than the islands. The climate is equatorial. The country's economy is based mainly on tourism and fisheries
 The state is a democracy. According to an official estimate for 2020,
the country has a population of 98462 inhabitants (ranked 203rd).
Its population is the smallest in Africa. The official languages ??are English and Creole. The Portuguese first arrived on the islands in the early 16th century.
Since then, the French, to whom the Seychelles owe their name, and the English, who in 1903 declared the Seychelles an English colony, have passed through the islands.
The country gained its independence in 1976. In this island group, when it was still an possession of England, the British had displaced since March 9, 1956 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus, together with the Metropolitan of Kyrenia Kyprianou, and the journalist Paul. Ioannidis until March 28, 1957
who returned to Greece, from where he returned to Cyprus, to finally take over in 1960 the first President of the independent Republic of Cyprus. National holiday is June 18, when in 1993 the current Constitution was adopted.
While Australian travelers or Arab merchants are believed to have been the first visitors to the island, the first written reference to the islands dates back to 1502. That year the famous Portuguese explorer, Admiral Vasco da Gama discovered the islands on one of his voyages to India ( from the Amirantes) and the Seychelles were mapped for the first time.
Da Gama gave them the same name ("Admiral Islands"). The first written detailed description of the islands dates back to 1609, by the crew of the English ship "Ascension". The islands were occasionally used by pirates for slave trade between Asia and Africa.
Around 1742 the colonization of the islands began by French slave traders with white settlers and black African slaves.
In 1756 the French took control of the islands and Captain Nicolas Morpheus laid the foundation stone that marked the official settlement. The islands were named after Louis's finance minister, Jean Moro de Cesel.
From 1794 to 1812 the British and the French claimed sovereignty over the island. During the Anglo-French War, French Governor Jean-Baptiste de Kinsi resisted when enemy ships arrived on the islands.
In 1812 England took full control, following the surrender of Mauritius. Under the Treaty of Paris in 1814, the islands remained under English rule, with a French governor.
The Seychelles was originally part of the Mauritius colony and in 1872 gained administrative autonomy. In 1903 they became a British colony.