Ambohidray

Ambohidray lies north of Moramanga in Madagascar's eastern highlands, in the country of the Bezanozano. The Mangoro valley forms a corridor between the central plateau and the forested eastern coast. During the eighteenth century commerce with coastal traders enriched Bezanozano communities along these routes. In the early nineteenth century the expanding Merina kingdom brought the region under its authority, changing the conditions under which people and goods crossed the valley.