Fenoarivo

Fenoarivo lies in the uplands of Bongolava, west of the central Malagasy plateau. This country occupies the transition between the Merina highlands and the western lands associated with the Sakalava kingdom of Menabe. Rolling high ground and river valleys lead west from Imerina. In the early nineteenth century Merina expansion brought new garrisons and settlements to this frontier, where the interests of the highland and western kingdoms met.