Antaifasy

The Antaifasy lived around Farafangana on Madagascar's southeastern coast, divided into three groups, each of which had its own king.

From the 1680s the Antaifasy fought the neighboring Antemoro, whose brief domination was ended by King Maseba. In the eighteenth century King Ifara controlled trade with European ships on the Manampatra River. Imerina invaded in 1827 and made the kingdom a vassal, but resistance to Merina rule continued.