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Tupua Tamasese Titimaea

d. 1891 · 19th century

Tupua Tamasese Titimaea was a Samoan paramount chief who was installed as king with German backing in 1887, after Germany deposed and exiled Malietoa Laupepa. His rule provoked a rising led by Mataʻafa Iosefo, and the resulting crisis brought German, American and British warships to Apia in 1889. The Treaty of Berlin of that year restored Laupepa, and Tamasese died in 1891.

Tupua Tamasese Titimaea
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Kingdom of Samoa

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