Seychelles
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...population is mainly of mixed French, African, South Asian, Chinese, and Arab descent. Over 80% of the population...earlier to the Arabs, the Seychelles were explored by Vasco da Gama in 1502. In 1756 the French claimed the islands, and...