King Andrianjaka established Antananarivo as the capital of this kingdom.
One ruler of this polity legitimized his power by acquiring the twelve most powerful sampy religious idols in the kingdom. A king of this polity defeated the Vazimba people to take one of the twelve sacred hills of this polity's namesake ethnic group. FranÃ§ois Callet wrote down the oral histories of the noble class of this kingdom in the Tantara ny Andriana. A ruler of this kingdom defeated a joint British-French invasion and lined the beach around the port of Tamataye with the heads of 21 defeated Europeans. That ruler was called a (*) "female Caligula". King Andrianjaka established Antananarivo as the capital of this kingdom. Ruled by three queens named Ranavalona in the 19th century, for 10 points, name this last and most powerful native kingdom of Madagascar prior to French colonization.
One ruler of this polity legitimized his power by acquiring the twelve most powerful sampy religious idols in the kingdom.
Kingdom of Merina (accept Imerina)