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A group of islands in the Mozambique Channel between Mozambique and Madagascar. Under French rule since the 19th century, the Comoros were attached to Madagascar from 1911-46, being reorganized as an Overseas Territory in 1946. Since 1950, the Comoros have issued
their own stamps. The Comoros became independent in 1975, except for
Mayotte, which voted to remain French. A coup soon after independence
placed a leftist regime in power, but its increasingly eccentric rule
brought another coup in 1978, which replaced it with a pro-French
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