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310:, commanding the Spanish ship San Gerónimo. He sighted the island on 23 December 1595; his description of it is brief and he never landed there. The second known European visit did not occur until much later, by the Australian John Henry Rowe, his ship John Bull arrived on the island on September 10, 1825, being attacked by the natives. Pohnpei, together with the Senyavin Islands, was definitely included in the European navigation charts after being sighted by the Russian navigator Fyodor Litke in 1828, more than two centuries after the rest of the Caroline Islands. The main seat of government of the Carolinas was found on this island. The Spaniards called the island Ponapé and established the city of
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303:, within which the island of Pohnpei is currently included, were visited on 22 August 1526 by the Spanish explorer Toribio Alonso de Salazar. On 1 January 1528, the explorer Alonso de Saavedra took possession of the islands of Uluti in the name of the King of Spain. The archipelago was visited in 1542, by the Matelotes Islands in 1543 and 1545, and by Legazpi in 1565.
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the
American fleet. Ponapé was reached after twelve days of painful journey and what the natives had destroyed was rebuilt, locking it in a fort. When they saw an important military presence on the island, they accepted the Spanish authority, advised by a European named Deoane, who lived among them, and who may have been the instigator of the previous rebellion.
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the fact that it could only occupy a small number of square kilometers and the cost of maintaining a growing number of detachments"; it was rather due to prestige requirements. For this reason, when in 1887 there was an uprising by the indigenous people, who murdered the entire
Spanish colony, a new expedition was immediately ordered to leave.
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exercised. Throughout those years, Spanish casualties as a result of these confrontations were proportionally numerous: in one of them, for example, there were thirty dead and fifty wounded. It was often necessary to apply authority with absolute force. The remains of Fort
Alfonso XIII, known as "Spanish Wall", date from the colonial period.
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Commander
Posadillo was appointed head of the expedition and arrived on the island at the end of 1885. The scarce garrison and administrative equipment was installed on the island. The company was not economically profitable due to "the small variety of export products, the distance from the markets,
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The troops that composed the next
Spanish expedition were commanded by Commander Diaz Varela. Another chief of the Navy, Don Luis Cadarso y Rey, joined the expedition as governor of the archipelago. He would die eleven years later in Cavite, boarding the American battleship Olímpia, the flagship of
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While the
Spanish domination lasted on the island, peaceful periods and skirmishes took place over that territory with a complicated morphology that made operations difficult. The rebellions were often joined by indigenous people from the adjacent islands over which no effective control could be
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314:, which became their first capital. As it was the seat of the Spanish colony (composed of officials, military, missionaries and Filipino workers) it became known simply as Colonia or Kolonia, adjacent to the current capital, Palikir.
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The pre-colonial history of
Pohnpei is divided into three stages: Mwehin Kawa or Mwehin Aramas (ca. 1100); Mwehin Sau Deleur (from ca. 1100 to ca. 1628); and Mwehin Nahnmwarki (from ca. 1628 to ca. 1885).
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Federated States of Micronesia gained full independence in 1985. Since then, Pohnpei has been a sheltered tropical port under indirect U.S. control.
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carrier air strike (CVL-25). At the end of the war, the
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In Pohnpei there are historic ruins of a Micronesian civilization, especially the ruins of
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In 1885, at the behest of the Spanish government, a new expedition was organized in the
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420:. The land area of Pohnpei state is about 345 square kilometers (133.2 square miles).
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Higher Education in the Federated States of Micronesia
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Inside the lagoon of Ant Atoll, southwest of Pohnpei
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389:(BB-61) battle ship bombardments, as well as a USS
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1158:States of the Federated States of Micronesia
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649:(former Pohnpei Island Central School) in
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618:. Pohnpei has a unicameral legislature.
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373:Pohnpei, when it was a district of the
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18:State in Federated States of Micronesia
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898:Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
756:Our Lady of Mercy Catholic High School
673:Our Lady of Mercy Catholic High School
469:With the exception of coastal plains,
375:Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
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627:Pohnpei State Department of Education
290:Old Catholic Church in Pohnpei (1932)
174:371.6 km (143.5 sq mi)
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369:Former flag used from 1977 to 1992
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796:Federated States of Micronesia
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353:bought the island from Spain;
261:Federated States of Micronesia
131:Federated States of Micronesia
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361:United States administration
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955:Compact of Free Association
341:German and Japanese control
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355:under German sovereignty
312:Santiago de la Ascensión
642:Madolenihmw High School
603:Politics and government
578:(formerly Ngatik) (456)
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505:Kolonia, Pohnpei State
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263:(FSM). Its capital is
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347:Spanish–American War
295:Spanish Colonization
192: • Density
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888:South Seas Mandate
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319:Philippines
159:Reed Oliver
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1147:Categories
704:fsmlaw.org
686:References
681:in Kolonia
675:in Kolonia
663:in Kolonia
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609:democratic
576:Sapwuahfik
564:Mwoakilloa
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345:After the
179:Population
147:Government
78:Micronesia
1036:Transport
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990:Military
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748:Archived
728:Archived
570:Pingelap
560:(1,407)
432:Pingelap
414:Honolulu
154:Governor
95:158°13′E
1153:Pohnpei
1116:Outline
1050:Culture
1019:Economy
865:History
842:Pohnpei
651:Kolonia
582:Nukuoro
552:(3,192)
546:(6,074)
544:Kolonia
540:(6,470)
534:(6,647)
528:(6,639)
522:(5,767)
479:Pohnpei
452:Nukuoro
424:Pohnpei
391:Cowpens
351:Germany
271:History
265:Kolonia
259:of the
141:Kolonia
137:Capital
120:Country
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206:UTC+11
187:36,196
92:6°51′N
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