Yap and the Yap Empire

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Petersen, Glenn (2016-01-11). "Yap and the Yap Empire". In Dalziel, Nigel; MacKenzie, John M (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Empire. Wiley. pp. 1–3. doi:10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe048. ISBN 978-1-118-44064-3.


Abstract: Abstract

           The Central Pacific island of Yap served as the focal point in a far‐flung maritime network for centuries before European colonial intrusion into the region. Yapese exercised a limited degree of economic, political, and religious or supernatural control over the other, much smaller islands in this Micronesian archipelago. This system of interrelationships is often construed as a small‐scale, informal empire.

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