• the emperor William country on the island new Guinea
• the Bismarck islands in the Bismarck archipelago
• the Salomonen
• the Karolinen
• the Marianen
• Palau
• Nauru
• Neupommern
• Neumecklenburg
• New Hanover
• and Marshall Islands

History

The German flag was already go-eaten 1884 by Finsch and denting man in the emperor William country and Bismarck archipelago. 1885 received the area an imperial charter. In the same year Marshall Islands fall at Germany. Two years later come the western Salomonen islands into German hands, which however (except Bougainville and Buka) after the Samoa contract England fall. 1888 are taken the island Nauru still in possession. After the arbitral award of the Pope Leo XIII. the German Reich acquires the Marianen, Karolinen and Palau. In the year 1891 the capital Finschhafen had to be given up because of malaria. On 1 April 1899 it came under the administration of the German Reich. The government resettles 1906 after Rabaul.

At the beginning of the First World War, thus already, Australian troops the emperor William country, Bismarck archipelago, Salomonen islands and Nauru occupied 1914. The Marianen, Karolinen, Palau and Marshall Islands are occupied nearly combatless by Japanese units. 1920 gave the the area under Japanese and Australian mandate.

To the Second World War the Japanese people federation mandates come under American rule. With the time the islands became into independence to dismiss:

• 1975 emperor William country, Bismarck archipelago, Bougainville, Neupommern and Neumecklenburg as part of Papua New Guinea
• 1968 Nauru
• 1986 Karolinen as Mikronesien and Marshall Islands
• 1994 Palau

The Marianen is to today as northern Marianen part of the USA

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