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Topic: Cimbrian War
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German Samoa

Years: 1900 - 1919

German Samoa (German: Deutsch-Samoa) is a German protectorate from 1900 to 1919, consisting of the islands of Upolu, Savai'i, Apolima, and Manono, now wholly within the independent state of Samoa, formerly Western Samoa.

Samoa is the last German colonial acquisition in the Pacific basin, received following the Tripartite Convention signed at Washington on December 2, 1899 with ratifications exchanged on February 16, 1900.

It is the only German colony in the Pacific, aside from the Kiautschou Bay concession in China, that is administered separately from German New Guinea.