Samoa foi a última adquisición colonial alemá no Pacífico, recibida tras a Convención Tripartita asinada en Washington o 2 de decembro de 1899 co intercambio de ratificacións o 16 de febreiro de 1900.[1]
Foi a única colonia alemá no Pacífico, á parte da concesión de Kiau Chau na China, e que se administrou por separado da Nova Guinea alemá.
Ryden, George Herbert (1975): The Foreign Policy of the United States in Relation to Samoa. Nueva York: Octagon Books. (Reimpresión por acordo especial coa Yale University Press. Publicado orixinalmente en New Haven: Yale University Press, 1928), p. 574: the Tripartite Convention (United States, Germany, Great Britain) was signed at Washington on 2 December 1899 with ratifications exchanged on 16 February 1900
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