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The Nauruan Civil War was fought from 1878 to 1888, between forces loyal to incumbent King Aweida of Nauru and those seeking to depose him in favour of a rival claimant. The war was preceded by the introduction of firearms to the island and its inhabitants, Nauruans, as a whole. For the majority of the war, the loyalists and the rebels found ...
Photo of a Nauruan warrior during the Nauruan Civil War around 1880 Nauru was first settled by Micronesians at least 3,000 years ago, and there is evidence of possible Polynesian influence. [ 22 ] Comparatively little is known of Nauruan prehistory, [ 23 ] although the island is believed to have had a long period of isolation, which accounts ...
German attacks on Nauru; Nauruan Civil War; R. Operation RY This page was last edited on 18 May 2024, at 16:32 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Nauru was occupied on 16 April 1888 by German troops, which ended the Nauruan Civil War. On 1 October 1888 the German gunboat SMS Eber landed 36 men on Nauru. [8] Accompanied by William Harris the German marines marched around the island and returned with the twelve chiefs, the white settlers and a Gilbertese missionary. [8]
1940 map of Nauru showing the extent of the phosphate mined lands. Mining operations on Nauru began in 1906, at which time it was part of the German colonial empire. The island had some of the world's largest and highest quality deposits of phosphate, a key component in fertiliser, making it a strategically important resource on which agriculture in Australia and New Zealand depended.
Aweida was born Aweijeda in 1850 at Boe, Nauru. Before Nauru came under European rule, it was governed by a head chief who made laws that were enforced by local chiefs. When Germany annexed Nauru to German New Guinea, Aweida retained his sovereignty as king and remained the chieftain of the Nauruan people. He reigned the country from about 1875 ...
Nauruan Civil War This page was last edited on 12 July 2019, at 20:28 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
Nauruan Civil War This page was last edited on 29 August 2020, at 04:42 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...