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National Order of Madagascar

Highest order of Madagascar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ3885159 ↗
Source-derived summary

The National Order of Madagascar is the highest of honorific orders of Madagascar.

History

The National Order was created on 23 September 1959, after the Malagasy Republic was proclaimed.

Editorial summary

“National Order of Madagascar” enters the record as highest order of Madagascar. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what National, Order and Madagascar can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1958-10-14. Its strongest next move is a source search built around National, Order and Madagascar.
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“National Order of Madagascar” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, National, Order and Madagascar provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3885159. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1959.

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This entry incorporates text from “National Order of Madagascar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.