As stated, this country has been influenced by many settlers who came from different parts of the world. However, Arab sailors were the ones who first discovered these lands during the Middle Ages, long before the colonisation era.
1598 was the first time Dutch invaders entered these lands with the objective to colonise it. However, they had to abandon the region during 1710. The French colonised the country and named it ‘Île de France’.
1810, saw the Napoleonic wars and this was when the Britishers thwarted the French from Mauritius and claimed it for themselves. The Treaty of Paris, signed in 1814, officially named Mauritius as a British territory. Mauritius gained freedom from the British Empire in 1968. They were named a republic in their own right during 1992.