Boeny

Boeny was a group of trading settlements around Boina Bay on Madagascar's northwest coast, at the heart of the island's Antalaotra merchant communities.

Around 1690 the Sakalava prince Andriamandisoarivo founded the kingdom of Boina. At its port of Mahajanga, an English captain found stone houses, mosques and Muslim traders from Surat and Anjouan in 1764. Sakalava rulers allowed Muslim worship in exchange for control of trade; Imerina occupied the kingdom after 1832.