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French Polynesia (/ ˌ p ɒ l ɪ ˈ n iː ʒ ə / ⓘ POL-ih-NEE-zhə; French: Polynésie française [pɔlinezi fʁɑ̃sɛːz] ⓘ; Tahitian: Pōrīnetia Farāni) is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole overseas country.
History of French Polynesia by period (4 C) * History of Bora Bora (1 P) History of Tahiti (4 C, 14 P) History of the Marquesas Islands (6 P) A.
In the history of French Polynesia, the French Polynesian island groups do not share a common history before the establishment of the French protectorate in 1889. The first French Polynesian islands to be settled by Polynesians were the Marquesas Islands in AD 300 and the Society Islands in AD 800.
Unknown at the time to French and Polynesians, the Konoe Cabinet in Imperial Japan on 16 September 1940 included French Polynesia among the many territories which were to become Japanese possessions in the post-war world—though in the course of the war in the Pacific the Japanese were not able to launch an actual invasion of the French islands.
Category: History of French Polynesia by period. ... Years in French Polynesia (7 C) This page was last edited on 29 July 2019, at 06:05 (UTC). Text ...
By the mid-1400s, the trade routes between the islands and French Polynesia had broken down. [1] Important natural resources were exhausted and a period of civil war began on Mangareva, causing the small populations on Henderson and Pitcairn to be cut off and eventually become extinct. [citation needed]
According to historical accounts, the first group of Chinese immigrants, primarily of the Hakka and Punti ethnicities, arrived in French Polynesia in 1865.. The majority were brought from China ...
Tahiti (English: / t ə ˈ h iː t i / ⓘ; Tahitian, ; [3] [4] French:) is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France. It is located in the central part of the Pacific Ocean and the nearest major landmass is the North Island of New Zealand .