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Chromograph map of Samoa - George Cram 1896. The Samoan Islands were first settled some 3,500 years ago as part of the Austronesian expansion.Both Samoa's early history and its more recent history are strongly connected to the histories of Tonga and Fiji, nearby islands with which Samoa has long had genealogical links as well as shared cultural traditions.
Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "History of Samoa" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 ...
Printable version; In other projects ... History of Samoa (7 C, 4 P) G. German Samoa (2 C, ... Pages in category "History of the Samoan Islands"
Previous names were Samoa from 1900 to 1919, and Western Samoa from 1914 to 1997. It was admitted to the United Nations on 15 December 1976. [ 2 ] The entire island group , inclusive of American Samoa , was known by Europeans as the Navigator Islands before the 20th century because of the Samoans' seafaring skills.
After World War I, during the time of the Mau movement in Western Samoa (then a New Zealand protectorate), there was a corresponding American Samoa Mau movement, led by Samuel Sailele Ripley, who was from Leone village and was a World War I war veteran. In 1921, seventeen chiefs of the American Samoa Mau were arrested and imprisoned under hard ...
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This page lists the individual Samoa year pages. It only references years after 1962, when the country gained independence from New Zealand . Twenty-first century
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