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    The Samoan Islands (Samoan: Motu o Sāmoa) are an archipelago covering 3,030 km2 (1,170 sq mi) in the central South Pacific, forming part of Polynesia and...
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    Rose Atoll and Swains Island also included in the territory. All islands except for Swains Island are part of the Samoan Islands, and the total land area...
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    discovered and settled the Samoan Islands around 3,500 years ago. They developed a Samoan language and Samoan cultural identity. Samoa is a unitary parliamentary...
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    Samoans or Samoan people (Samoan: tagata Sāmoa) are the indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Polynesia, who speak the...
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    islands with which Samoa has long had genealogical links as well as shared cultural traditions. European explorers first reached the Samoan islands in...
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    The Manuʻa Islands, or the Manuʻa tele (Samoan: Manuʻa tele), in the Samoan Islands, consists of three main islands: Taʻū, Ofu and Olosega. The latter...
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    would imply that Samoa has authority over all the Samoan islands, including American Samoa. Samoan crisis of the 1880s Unification of Saint Martin Hermann...
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  • Samoan Americans are Americans of Samoan origin, including those who emigrated from the United States Territory of American Samoa and immigrants from...
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  • Latter-day Saints in the Samoan Islands refers to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members on the Samoan Islands. In 1890, there were...
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    the Samoan Islands into American Samoa and German Samoa. First Samoan Civil War Samoan crisis Mata'afa Iosefo Malietoa Tanumafili I German Samoa Siege...
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  • The Anoaʻi family (Samoan: [anoˈaʔi] ah-noh-AH ee) is a family of professional wrestlers originating from the Samoan Islands. Family members have comprised...
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    Samoan (Gagana faʻa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa; IPA: [ŋaˈŋana ˈsaːmʊa]) is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands. Administratively...
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  • territory in the Samoan Islands Samoan language, the native language of the Samoan Islands Samoans, a Polynesian ethnic group of the Samoan Islands This disambiguation...
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    German Samoa (German: Deutsch-Samoa; Samoan: Siamani-Sāmoa) was a German protectorate from 1900 to 1920, consisting of the islands of Upolu, Savai'i,...
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    divided the Samoan archipelago. The eastern Samoan islands became territories of the United States and later became known as American Samoa. The U.S. formally...
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    The Samoan crisis was a standoff between the United States, the German Empire, and the British Empire from 1887 to 1889 over control of the Samoan Islands...
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  • rival Samoan factions in the Samoan Islands of the South Pacific. The political struggle lasted roughly between 1886 and 1894, primarily between Samoans contesting...
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    the island, some of the highest such escarpments in the world. While the Samoan islands have not shown evidence of volcanism for many years, the Samoa hotspot...
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  • Samoa is a country in the South Pacific. Samoa may also refer to: Samoan Islands, an archipelago comprising all of Samoa and most of American Samoa American...
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    Dutch first sighted the Samoan Islands in 1722. The French later noted them in 1768, giving them the name Navigator Islands. No permanent European settlements...
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  • Samoan Australians refers to Australian citizens or residents who are of ethnic Samoan descent or people born in Samoa but grew up in Australia. However...
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  • The traditional culture of Samoa is a communal way of life based on Fa'a Samoa, the unique socio-political culture. In Samoan culture, most activities are...
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    populous island of American Samoa and is part of the archipelago of the Samoan Islands. It is the third largest island in the Samoan Islands chain of...
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  • 2009 Samoa earthquake – Fotopedia NZ Samoans head home to loved ones – One News Tsunami in Samoa Islands – Disasters Charter Tsunami Animation: Samoan Islands...
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    Upolu (redirect from Upolu, Samoa)
    second largest of the Samoan Islands by area. With approximately 145,000 inhabitants, it is by far the most populous of the Samoan Islands. Upolu is situated...
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    The Samoan archipelago is a chain of 16 islands and numerous seamounts covering 3,123 km2 (1,206 sq mi) in the central South Pacific, south of the equator...
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  • the night. His wife is Ele'ele. Samoan mythology is a variant of a more general Polynesian mythology in the Samoa Islands. Afa Atonga Atu Faʻatiu Fisaga...
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  • Below are some Samoan plant names in alphabetical order in the Samoan language and their corresponding descriptions in English. Many are used in traditional...
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    Swains Island (/ˈsweɪnz/; Tokelauan: Olohega [oloˈhɛŋa]; Samoan: Olosega [oloˈsɛŋa]) is a remote coral atoll in the Tokelau Islands in the South Pacific...
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    Tripartite Convention of 1899 concluded the Second Samoan Civil War, resulting in the formal partition of the Samoan archipelago into a German colony and a United...
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