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Apia   Listen
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Apia  n.  (Geography) The capital city of Samoa. Population (2000) = 32,859.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Apia" Quotes from Famous Books



... school-boy; to have preceded Burr to New Orleans, and Fremont to the Pacific; to have been the inspiration of the soldiers of three wars; and to have cheered the hearts of American sailors in peril of enemies on the sea from Algiers to Apia Harbor. If the cheering of the Calliope by the crew of the Trenton binds closer together the citizens of the two English-speaking nations, should its companion scene, no less thrilling, be forgotten—when ...
— The Star-Spangled Banner • John A. Carpenter

... corporation on the start Germany acquired a virtual monopoly of the transportation and refining of coconut oil and would have become the dominant power in the Pacific if she had not been checked by force of arms. In Apia Bay in 1889 and again in Manila Bay in 1898 an American fleet faced a German fleet ready for action while a British warship lay between. So we rescued the Philippines and Samoa from German rule and in 1914 German power was ...
— Creative Chemistry - Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries • Edwin E. Slosson



Words linked to "Apia" :   Independent State of Samoa, Western Samoa, national capital, Samoa i Sisifo, Samoa



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