| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Samoa |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Sa·mo·a |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s -m  |
| An island group of the southern Pacific Ocean east-northeast of Fiji, divided between Samoa, a sovereign nation, and American Samoa, a territory of the United States. The islands were originally populated by Polynesians perhaps as early as 1000 b.c. and were first sighted by European explorers in 1722. Dual administration of the archipelago was established by treaty in 1899.
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