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Definition of Comoros

1. Noun. A country on the Comoro Islands.

Definition of Comoros

1. Proper noun. Country in Eastern Africa. Official name: Union of the Comores. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Comoros

1. A group of indian ocean islands, the islands of great comoro, anjouan, mayotte, and moheli, lying between northeast mozambique and northwest madagascar. The capital is moroni. In 1914 they became a colony attached to madagascar administratively and were made a french overseas territory in 1947. Except for mayotte which remained french, comoros became an independent republic in 1975. Comoros represents the arabic qamar, moon, said by some scholars to be linked with the mystical mountains of the moon said to be somewhere in equatorial africa. (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Comoros

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Factories in India, 1622-1623: A Calendar of Documents in the by William Foster (1908)
"Death of Captains Bennett, Batten, and Fitzherbert, and appointment of Green to succeed the last-named. On reaching the comoros their men, ' beinge sicke ..."

2. Landmine Monitor Report 2002: Toward a Mine-free World by International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Human Rights Watch (Organization). (2002)
"However, in November 2000 comoros voted in favor of United Nations General ... comoros did not participate in the Second Meeting of States Parties to the ..."

3. International Religious Freedom (2000): Report to Congress by the Department edited by Barbara Larkin (2001)
"comoros The new Constitution decreed in May 1999 does not prohibit specifically discrimination based on religion or religious belief, and the Government ..."

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