Volume I: National Reports 1980
Michel Robert1
The state of Comoro (l’Etat Comorien) is situated in the archipelago of that name (les Comores), which consists of four islands: Great Comoro, Anjouan, Mohilla and Mayotte lying between the coast of East Africa and Madagascar. The population of some 300000 people belongs mostly to the Islamic faith of the shāfi‘ī rite.
Mayotte was ceded to France in 1841; the other three islands became a French protectorate in…