Antesaka

The Antesaka kingdom arose on Madagascar's southeastern coast, south of the town of Farafangana. Its founders were migrants from Sakalava Menabe who crossed to the east coast in the seventeenth century.

By the 1650s they reached Nosipandra, led, according to tradition, by the exiled prince Andriamandresy. King Ratongalaza reportedly killed or exiled his brothers to secure the throne; his grandson Lengoabo expanded the kingdom in the eighteenth century. Merina armies invaded in the nineteenth century, killing or enslaving many Antesaka.