Antsohihy

Antsohihy is a town on the Loza River in northern Madagascar, in a region that in the 1300s belonged to the Antalaotra Muslim Swahili city-state world of Irodo and Mahilaka. The present town was founded at the end of the 1600s by Sakalava, Makua and Tsimihety settlers and named after the local sohihy tree.