It wasn’t in the Ottoman Empire, but one king from this country was strangled with a silk sash to prevent the shedding of royal blood, though William Ellis still believed he was alive. Ida Pfeiffer unwittingly joined a plot against a monarch of this modern-day country who enslaved many andevo and was assisted by Jean Laborde. The Lambert Charter was signed by a monarch from this country who determined guilt by whether people vomited three pieces of chicken skin after they consumed the (*) tangena nut poison. The Kingdom of Imerina was based in this modern-day country that was eventually conquered by the French in a series of wars against the caste of Hova people. Queen Ranavalona ruled on, for 10 points, what island off the coast of Africa with a capital at Antananarivo? ■END■
ANSWER: Madagascar [or Republic of Madagascar or Republique de Madagascar or Repoblikan'i Madagasikara]
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