In 1899, Spain sold its remaining Pacific islands — the Northern Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands and Palau — to Germany and Spanish colonial possessions were reduced to Spanish Morocco, Spanish Sahara and Spanish Guinea, all in Africa.

In the early 17th century Spain colonized Guam, the Northern Marianas, and the Caroline Islands ( what would later become the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau ), creating the Spanish East Indies, which was governed from the Spanish Philippines until the Spanish-American War in 1898.

Following its defeat in the Spanish-American War, Spain sold Palau and most of the rest of the Caroline Islands to Germany in 1899.

There is disagreement as to whether Spaniard Ruy López de Villalobos, who landed in several Caroline Islands, spotted the Palau archipelago in 1543.

The islands of Palau constitute part of the Caroline Islands chain.

In the western Caroline islands ( Yap and Palau from 1907 Saipan )

Micronesia: The islands of Kiribati, Nauru, the Marianas ( Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ), the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Palau, and the Federated States of Micronesia ( Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae, all in the Caroline Islands ).

Japan had already occupied the Marshall, Caroline, and the Palau Islands, which flanked the U. S. lines of communications in the region by more than 2, 300 miles.

Lieutenant Colonel Ellis died under mysterious circumstances on the Japanese-held island of Palau in the Caroline Islands.

Japan occupied Palau Island, the Marshall Islands, and the Caroline Islands.

A sailor named David O ' Keefe was shipwrecked on Yap in the Caroline Islands, where he found the natives highly prized Rai stones quarried at great effort and danger on the island of Palau.

This left the Japanese holding the Philippines, the Caroline Islands, Palau Islands and Mariana Islands.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Caroline Islands comprises the islands of the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Caroline Islands is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the Federated States of Micronesia and in the Republic of Palau.

In 1899, Spain sold its remaining Pacific islands — the Northern Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands and Palau — to Germany, reducing Spain's colonial possessions to Spanish Morocco, the Spanish Sahara and Spanish Guinea, all in Africa.

El Niño related coral bleaching in Palau, Western Caroline Islands.

This is because the text of the German – Spanish Treaty of 1899 which transferred sovereignty of certain Spanish possessions in the Pacific to Germany, namely the Northern Mariana Islands ( except Guam ), Palau and the Caroline Islands, failed to include these smaller islands.

Languages in the Trukic group are closely related and extend over most of the Caroline Islands, from the Mortlock Islands southeast of Chuuk to the atolls in the vicinity of Yap and Palau in the west.

* Palau, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea

* Kiribati, Nauru, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Niue, Palau, Vanuatu, Tonga, Papua New Guinea

However, before MacArthur could retake the Philippines, the Palau Islands, specifically Peleliu and Angaur, were to be neutralized and an airfield built to protect MacArthur's right flank.

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Pohnpei ( then including Kusaie ), Truk, Yap, Palau, the Marshall Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands, together constituted the TTPI.

The neighboring trust districts of Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands chose not to participate.

During its years of colonial rule, Japan moved more than 1, 000 Japanese to the Marshall Islands although they never outnumbered the indigenous peoples as they did in the Mariana Islands and Palau.

Four of the Trust Territory districts formed a single federated Micronesian state in 1979, but the districts of Palau and the Marshall Islands declined to participate.

Palau then became part of the Spanish East Indies, along with the Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands.

Palau established relations with the Republic of China on Taiwan, instead of the People's Republic of China, in 1999.

While this puts Palau in common with the Federated States of Micronesia and other neighboring island groups, the disc on the flag ( similar to that on Japan's flag ) is off-centre like that of the flag of Bangladesh, but in this case represents the moon instead of the sun.

Had it not been for shipwrecked islanders who took refuge in the Philippines, Europeans likely would not have found Palau until much later.

The Japanese presence made Palau a major target for the Allied forces in World War II.

Starting in 1993, a small group of American volunteers called The BentProp Project has searched the waters and jungles of Palau for information that could lead to the identification and recovery of these remains.

Tourism earned $ 67 million in foreign exchange for Palau in 1996, accounting for roughly half of GDP.

Note: the Compact of Free Association with the U. S., entered into after the end of the UN trusteeship on 1 October 1994, provides Palau with up to $ 700 million in U. S. aid over 15 years in return for furnishing military facilities.

On May 25, 1994, the Council ended the trusteeship for the Palau District, after which the U. S. and Palau agreed to establish the latter's independence on October 1.

Andorra, Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau have their mail delivered through another UPU member ( the United States for the Compact of Free Association states and France and Spain for Andorra.

It began as an insubordination event during road construction on Sokehs Island, then escalated into the murder of 9 persons, the subsequent apprehension and trial of 36 Sokehs rebels, the execution of 15 insurgents, and banishment for others to Babelthuap in the German Palau Islands.

Most tourists to Palau stay in Koror, which is the centre for Palau's resort services and house modern conveniences.

The Palau Güell (, ) is a mansion in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí for the Catalan industrial tycoon Eusebi Güell.

The concept of Exile was first introduced in Survivor: Palau, when a single contestant was made to stay alone on a beach for a day as a result of being the first to drop out of an Immunity Challenge.

This twist first appeared during the game in Survivor: Thailand and for a brief while in Survivor: Palau.

There is also a set of works created by the artist expressly for the Theater-Museum, like the room Mae West, the room Palau del Vent, the Monument to Francesc Pujols, and the Cadillac plujós.

The wealthy citizens of Barcelona, who were becoming ever more sympathetic to the Renaixença at the time the Palau was built, asked its architect for building materials and techniques that symbolized the Catalan character.

In response, he commissioned and gave great creative freedom to a variety of local artisans and craftsmen to produce the fabulous ornamentation, sculpture, and decorative structural elements for which the Palau is famous.

In the language of Palau, the term for Filipino is chad ra oles which literally means " people of the knife " because of Filipinos ' reputation for carrying knives and using them in fights.

assistance from India has included a grant of US $ 149, 841 for purchase of kitchen equipment for Palau National Hospital, US $ in 2008 for purchase of a boat and two pick-up trucks, US $ 100, 000 in June 2010 for purchase of computers and grant of 2 ITEC scholarships in 2010-11.