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Machamba, Ursula Salima, Queen of Moheli, 1874-1964

LC control no.no 99061707
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Personal name headingMachamba, Ursula Salima, Queen of Moheli, 1874-1964
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Variant(s)Machimba, Ursula Salima, Queen of Moheli, 1874-1964
Salima Machamba bint Saidi Hamadi Makadara, Queen of Moheli, 1874-1964
Machamba, Salima, Queen of Moheli, 1874-1964
Salima Machamba, Queen of Moheli, 1874-1964
Salima Machamba, Ursula, Queen of Moheli, 1874-1964
Salima Machamba, Ursule, Queen of Moheli, 1874-1964
Ursula Salima Machamba, Queen of Moheli, 1874-1964
Ursule Salima-Machamba, Queen of Moheli, 1874-1964
Associated countryComoros France
Birth date1874-11-01
Death date1964-08-07
Place of birthFomboni (Comoros)
Place of deathPesmes (France)
Found inA Pesmes en Franche-Comté, c1995: p. 9 (Ursula Salima Machamba, 1874-1964) p. 51, etc. (with the death of her mother in 1886, the royal power was transfered to Ursula Salima; she was proclaimed Reine de Mohéli [Comoros]; in Aug. 28, 1901 Ursula Salima Machimba married French officer Pierre Paule, after having abdicated the throne)
Wikipedia, French version, viewed Dec. 21, 2017 (Salima Machamba; Ursule Salima-Machamba; Salima Machamba bint Saidi Hamadi Makadara (Ursule); queen of Mohéli, an island in the Comoros archipelago; daughter of Djoumbé Fatima, queen of Mohéli, and Émile Fleuriot de Langle, and granddaughter of the sultan (king) Abderremane, who was cousin of Ranavalona Iere, queen of Madagascar; born in Fomboni, Moheli, 1 November 1874; married French gendarme Camille Paule on 28 August 1901 in Saint-Denis, La Réunion, and gave her throne to France in 1902; followed her husband to France, to a farm in the village of Cléry, Haute-Saône; died in Pesmes, 7 August 1964; described on stele at her grave as "Ursule Salima-Machamba, reine de Mohéli, épouse Camille Paule")
Wikipedia, Dec. 21, 2017 Salima Machamba; sultan of Mohéli (Mwali), 1888-1909; her official paternal name was Salima Machamba bint Saidi Hamadi Makadara, Christian name Ursule; born out of wedlock as the daughter of Jumbe Fatima bint Abderremane, Queen (Sultan) of Mohéli, and Emile Fleuriot de Langle, but officially she bore the name of her mother's husband; chosen as puppet queen of Mohéli by the French who made Comoros a French protectorate; deposed by the French government in 1909, and Comoros was annexed by France; she was deported with her family to France; lived there as a simple farmer, with a yearly allowance provided by the French government)
Not found inEnc. Brit., 15th ed.; Larousse XXe siècle; Enc. of Africa, South of the Sahara.