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Kosrae State Museum; Pohnpei. Lidorkini Museum in Kolonia, closed c.2012. [1] Yap. Yap Living History Museum, living ...
The museum re-opened in June 1992. [4] It was established by Pensile Lawrence. [5] [6] In 1994 the museum transferred from the Department of Land of the FSM, to the Department of Education. [7] The curator at this time was Yasuo I. Yamada. [7] The museum was close to the Pohnpei Tax and Revenue Office, the Department of Education and Spanish ...
Nan Madol was the ceremonial and political seat of the Saudeleur Dynasty, which united Pohnpei's estimated population of 25,000 people until about 1628. [3] Set apart between the main island of Pohnpei and Temwen Island, it was a scene of human activity as early as the first or second century AD.
Major population centers on Pohnpei include Palikir, the FSM's capital, and Kolonia, the capital of Pohnpei State. Pohnpei is the largest island in the FSM, with an area of 334 km 2 (129 sq mi), and a highest point of 782 m (2,566 ft), the most populous with 36,832 people, and the most developed single island in the FSM.
The State of Pohnpei is one of the four federal states of the Federated States of Micronesia. As a democratic federation, each state has the ability to retain large number of power within the state as well as a certain level of sovereignty typical of federal states. The chief executive of Pohnpei is the governor. Pohnpei has a unicameral ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in the Federated States on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
The name Deleur was an ancient name for Pohnpei, today a state containing the capital of the Federated States of Micronesia. [8] Pohnpeian legend recounts that the Saudeleur rulers were of foreign origin, and that their appearance was quite different from native Pohnpeians. The Saudeleur centralized form of absolute rule is characterized in ...
The Sokehs Mass Grave Site is the location where fifteen participants of the 1910/1911 Sokehs Rebellion on the island of Pohnpei were buried by German colonial authorities. The rebellion broke out in October 1910 on Sokehs Island and was suppressed by German naval forces by early 1911. [ 2 ]