The Portuguese discovered the uninhabited island in 1513. From the 17th to the 19th centuries, French immigration, supplemented by influxes of Africans, Chinese, Malays, and Malabar Indians, gave the island its ethnic mix. The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 cost the island its importance as a stopover on the East Indies trade route.
The Portuguese discovered the uninhabited island in 1513. From the 17th to the 19th centuries, French immigration supplemented by influxes of Africans, Chinese, Malays, and Malabar Indians gave the island its ethnic mix. The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 cost the island its importance as a stopover on the East Indies trade route.
Although remote from mainland France (France métropolitaine), Réunion nonetheless officially forms an integral part of the Republic, representing its own département.
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Thanks to its history, Reunionese cuisine is a mix between different cultures: French, Indian, Chinese...
Typical dishes are cari and rougail which are a meat or a fish cooked in a sauce and eaten with rice. ...
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I have booked a holiday over christmas to reunion. Does anyone know if the
underwater life is any good. There seams to be very little info in books and
they seam to concentrate on islands like Mauritus.
